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This
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-charts-to-be-thankful-for-this-thanksgiving/
is pretty interesting and strongly contradicts the conventional wisdom (especially prevalent among older folks, as it always has been) that the world is going to hell in a hand basket (a weird idiom), that the past was better than the present and the future will be worse still.
The comments are also interesting in what they reveal about how strongly people want to resist the notion that things are getting better, though of course comments posted on the net in response to almost any article are typically made by those with particularly strong and extreme views on the topic in question.
-Ww
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-charts-to-be-thankful-for-this-thanksgiving/
is pretty interesting and strongly contradicts the conventional wisdom (especially prevalent among older folks, as it always has been) that the world is going to hell in a hand basket (a weird idiom), that the past was better than the present and the future will be worse still.
The comments are also interesting in what they reveal about how strongly people want to resist the notion that things are getting better, though of course comments posted on the net in response to almost any article are typically made by those with particularly strong and extreme views on the topic in question.
-Ww