The World is Getting Worse (Part One) July 2021
"THE WORLD IS GETTING WORSE" Guess what? You're wrong. When you have a good look, beyond the media narrative, the world is not getting worse. In a 2016 survey, 58 percent of people in 17 countries surveyed thought the world is getting worse (rather than getting better or staying the same). I’m hoping that this little article will persuade you that this downward spiral in humanity and the natural world is very good news. News that, for some reason unknown to me, is being hidden from the masses. Because negative news often impacts us more than positive stories, the legacy media often push the thought that ‘progress’ is not news. Because many of us follow the news, and the news tends to concentrate on events that shock and outrage the audience, we often think that the world is far worse than what it actually is. It seems that as the world gets better, we become harsher critics of it, and this can cause us to mistakenly conclude that it hasn’t actually gotten better at all....