Opinion: We just had a global super-decade! Why doesn't it feel like it? (via latimesopinion)
Indeed, just before the 2010s began, Matt Ridley made the case in “The Rational Optimist” that things were better than they appeared, and last year, as our current decade was nearing its end, Steven Pinker made a very similar argument in his book “Enlightenment Now.” Indeed, going by the data alone, we’ve been on a very positive trend for a while now, from the alleviation of poverty to the eradication of disease, to reductions in violence and, yes, bigotry.
The decline of organized religion is a perennial scapegoat, particularly on the right. And although it surely is an important part of the story, we have a tendency to gloss over the fact that religion hasn’t always been a source of social peace. The psychologist Jonathan Haidt suggests we’ve been raising our children to be more fragile and less tolerant of ideas they don’t like or find threatening. I think he’s right, but that’s clearly not the whole of the problem . After all, complaining about “these kids today” has been an American pastime since Alexander Hamilton organized student protests at King’s College . Also, more importantly, the angriest and most divisive people today aren’t youngsters but oldsters.
We live in a culture that finds political power in claims of powerlessness and cultural strength in victimhood. The right thinks this is all true about the left and vice versa. But don’t you dare tell anybody that their side is full of whiners, too.
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