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"The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
All three statements are true at the same time.
Discussions about the state of the world too often focus on the first
statement: The news highlights what is going wrong, rarely mentioning any
positive development.
A pushback on this narrative takes it to the other extreme, which is equally
damaging. Solely communicating the progress that the world has achieved becomes
unhelpful, or even repugnant, when it glosses over the problems that are real
today.
It’s hard to resist falling for only one of these perspectives. But to see that
a better world is possible we need to see that both are true at the same time:
the world is awful
and the world is much better.
To illustrate what I mean, I will use the example of one of humanity’s biggest
tragedies: the death of its children. But the same is true for many of the
world’s other problems. Humanity faces many problems where things have improved
over time, which are still terrible, and for which we know that things can get
better."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
