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"The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of

human well-being." Steven Pinker, from, "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress."

I heartily recommend this comprehensive study (crammed not so much with arguments as data proving his thesis).

If things indeed have improved so much, why do we all feel this way, today?

"Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman have called it loss aversion and more generally it's been called the negativity bias. The syndrome in which bad is stronger than good. As we discussed before this can be amplified by certain journalistic habits and indeed gimmicks such as listing everything that is currently going wrong, if you scoured the news for all of the greatest dangers in any given year in history it would sound rather dire." Pinker

Progress always is interrupted by catastrophic, unforeseen events. That is what we're experiencing with Covid-19. Is it the Black Plague or a wide outburst of Ebola? No. Are these wildfires to be compared to Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Chernobyl?

Perspective, is all.

What I believe IS disheartening is the lack of acknowledgement of problems by some leaders.



Edits: 09/14/20

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Topic - "The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of - tinear 08:14:52 09/14/20 (61)

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