Naturally, people – especially in America – live in the moment and, given the “crisis” orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ever gone through. Not really.

Ivan Eland
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A lot of the people who are alive right now are experiencing the most amazing times in human history. Our standard of living is unprecedented. We have colonized the solar system. We have the means to travel anywhere in the world within minutes.

We have the internet, which is bringing us together all over the world. The fact that people are so focused on the past tells us something about how they live their lives today. As long as this is how they live, they will continue to think that everything is bad.

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