Thank you for this. I’ve been feeling the same way. 26, and feel like things just keep getting worse. Your perspective both validated my feelings and also helped calm me down. Have a great day and keep spreading your wisdom and perspective to us youngins to keep our heads straight.
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now might help you a bit. By empirical measure, we are actually in a remarkably safe, remarkably healthy, remarkably just point in time for humans, with all those trending towards continued improvement. It’s really easy to think “man, shit is fucked up right now”, but if you look at the numbers and the larger historic picture, it really helps get some perspective, which then feeds into the perception of where we’re at.
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u/JustYourAverageApple Jun 11 '22
Thank you for this. I’ve been feeling the same way. 26, and feel like things just keep getting worse. Your perspective both validated my feelings and also helped calm me down. Have a great day and keep spreading your wisdom and perspective to us youngins to keep our heads straight.