Think Positive

I posted a link to this on my blog last year, but since that blog got wiped, this is worth revisiting. We are constantly bombarded by negativity. The press is almost vampiric in its endless sucking of our faith in the future. It pounds us with relentless fear and doom prophecies. But the facts of where we are going is entirely different. Things are getting better everywhere. And this trend has been happening since the early 1960s. This has been due to globalization, countries switching to market-based economies and the slow eradication of dictatorships. Much of this has also been due to rich countries helping the poorer ones. Yet, if you listen to the press they tell us we’re destroying the world. That development is bad. Industrialization is killing the planet. Etc, Etc.

This is largely the propaganda of people who wish we could all adopt socialism. But the fact is, there are good reasons why China, Russia, Vietnam, etc. switched to makrt based economies. Things work a lot better when peple have the freedom to start their own businesses and trade freely. Government bureaucracies get in the way of human progress. They rarely help.

The facts are entirely different The same goes for environmentalism. We have made great strides in cleaning up the environment in the last 30 years. But if you listen to the media and the usual leftist hacks, we’re destroying the planet.  The truth is, we’re constantly improving our technology and looking for new ways to manage our resources. We are already doing a lot of the things we need to and we’re moving toward where we need to be in a lot of important areas.

Don’t let the negativity drones depress you. Most of them are either liars or ignorant of the facts. We are doing good work. Things are getting better for the human race. 

You’re right as rain.  I try to spread this sentiment whenever I get a chance and it’s sad to see how many people swallow the Chicken Little crowd’s rubbish.  Changing this doomsday perspective would speed up our progress big time.  But progress marches on anyway.  All of history is a testament to bad/wrong falling to the wayside and good and better marching ever onward.  Amen!

Posted by  on  05/26  at  04:50 PM

Now if we can only convince the Islamofascists....

Posted by Macker  on  05/26  at  08:09 PM

They don’t want things to get better. Neither do teh leftists, because it will prove they are wrong.

Posted by James Hudnall  on  05/26  at  08:50 PM

The reason is simple, as that lovable crank Mencken pointed out:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed--and hence, clamorous to be led to safety--by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Think of the staggering amount of control over us the lefties would get by pushing through all they want on just global warming, to name but one of their hobgoblins.  We’d be serfs.
Which is, of course, the way they want it.

Posted by  on  05/27  at  01:49 AM
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