How has the world gone to sh*t recently?
In terms of poverty rates, standard of living, violent crime, and many other key measures, the world is the best it has ever been, and is continuing to improve, literally every day.
I know it's hard to believe with the headlines we get, but this is the truth.
Doesn't mean we should rest, the situation is far from ideal, but it's important people know this, as it seems most actually don't.
The world's always been "going to sh*t" it's just that very generation gets a news flavour for their turds.
There's a doco series on TV at the mo about the 70's and its kinda interesting to watch because in many ways nothing has changed: we seem to be stuck in a continual cycle and have been so for the last gosh knows how many thousands of years,
Anyhow in this 70's doco there's hate and war, there are young folk rallying against the establishment, there are people saying the end is nigh, there are people saying a new era is starting, there are good times, bad times, causes to fight for, issues that are divisive. There was a US President everyone hated and so on.
I found it interesting because it really wasn't that different from 2018
It would appear that human nature has remained pretty constant no matter how advanced technology gets
The world has not been going to shark, it's improving every year, mainly thanks to globalisation, we currently live in the most peaceful and affluent time in a very long time.
I think we're lucky enough to be living in what is most likely the peak of humanity.
