If you hopped in a time machine to 1983 or 1951, and brought today’s media tools and techniques with you, you would be appalled and dismayed by what you saw then, too. In fact, there were more wars, more people dying of disease, more poverty and brutality, than today. It’s the immediacy and intimacy of our media today that makes us more distressed, not any empirical increase in human misery. It may not feel like it, but this is the best time to be alive, and the great majority of people on the planet would be crazy to change places with their grandparents at the same age.
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Originally Posted by fotze
If this day gets you riled up, you obviously aren't numb to the disappointment yet to be a real fan.
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