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What a Time to Be Alive
There are people today who think life was better in the past. They argue that there was not only a simplicity, tranquillity, sociability and spirituality about life in the distant past that has been lost, but a virtue too. This rose-tinted nostalgia, please note, is generally confined to the wealthy.
Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
There was a balance. It wasn’t because humans lived in balance with nature. Humans died in balance with nature. It was utterly brutal and tragic. Today, humanity is once again reaching a balance. The number of parents is no longer increasing. But this balance is dramatically different from the old balance. The new balance is nice: the typical paren
... See moreOla Rosling • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Why is there never an objective? And now I think about it, if there were, what would it even be? The answer is perhaps the same for us here at the end of history as it was for our ancestors millions of years ago at the beginning: to live well, to live quietly, and to die without too much of a fuss. And if we are very, very lucky, to love properly a
... See moreExurb1a • The Fifth Science
Never in history have lives been less lived, yet so well documented"