Is Everything Really That Bad?
The world is one of the best places to be right now.
Not the other galaxies but this one. The milky way. The solar system and the big blue planet Earth revolve around the sun for a full year. A whole of 365 days. Speaking of which the year 2022 saw a number of negative news.
The interest rates, the inflation, and the riots are just the tip of the iceberg. The world seems to be heading into a black hole where everything is doom and gloom.
But in 2022 we also reverse organ deaths in pigs, making the first embryo from stem cells that got the best results from cancer and obesity therapy trials. This is not just in 2022. This has been going on for a long, long time.
We now know the beginning of time. The historical metric of worldwide poverty has gone down 7 years before the United Nations predicted it would.
Since 1990, child mortality has reduced with life expectancy improving parallel with the overall GDP (Growth Domestic Product) across the world. Education has improved alongside the per capita government expenditure in countries like Canada, the United States, India, and many others.
Early in the decade of 2010, comedian Louis CK went on Conan Obrien’s show to do an interview. What he did was a whole skit that resonates with the view we have been trying to understand very well.
The idea that the world has improved so drastically that we have been able to put a seat in the air that people can ride without the hands of their parents hoisting them up in the air would be laughed at in 1850. There are diseases being cured, and more connectivity is possible in the world today.
“Everything is so much better and everyone is so much unhappier,” says CK to Conan.
I agree with it wholeheartedly with the increase in connectivity also reducing the level of conversation of appreciation in the world around us. The idea is clear that the possibility of a developing nature in the world that is developed, to begin with, is good.
But the question remains: How can we adopt a more robust and positive mindset about the world?
A clue might be in two things.
One, according to Cal Newport’s book “Digital Minimalism”, it is obvious that with the advent of technology, the connections have grown more than the quality of the conversation.
This has only added to the rust slowly growing over our need for validation and tribe-up with people.
And two, it is imminent that we become more and more aware of these positive outcomes of years of hard work. Just being aware of them is a good start to having a better outlook on life and inherently, the world of the future.