Or the world has always had issues and the lense through which we now view the world is an everpresent fear coaster.
Step away from the news & social media for a few months. You can't effect the outcome anyway and you might find you're happier.
Step away from the news & social media for a few months. You can't effect the outcome anyway and you might find you're happier.
Also, you really don't think that, in between building aqueducts and nuclear missiles, nothing has changed? You really think we have the same problems today as we did N years ago?
History and geography.
We can look back at history and say that there are times that are worse than now. For example, the second world war was worse than now. Cuban missile crisis also.
We can look at other countries and see that being in Syria or Ukraine right now is worse than in my more peaceful country.
By looking this way we literally gain new perspectives. Perhaps part of today's crisis is one of perspective maybe the internet narrows our vision.
I'll put it this way. We know exactly what happens when wars are started. We know very little about the effects of having an attention economy. For every thing you can give me that we know has changed for the better, I can give you another thing that's changed probably for the worse but we really have no clue. If people are living longer, more miserable lives, is that really an improvement?
Forewarned is forearmed.