The World Is Better Now Than Ever Before

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When you study history, you have a more complete picture of the world. When you have such context, you realize you are pretty darn lucky to be alive right now.
Produced by Matt Beat. Music by Electric Needle Room. All images found in the public domain.

I teach history, which is why I am extremely thankful. I always hear people complaining that the world is becoming a scarier place. Or I hear people long for the good old days. Well, I'm here to tell you that the good old days weren't actually as good as you remember them today. Here is more proof that human beings have never been off then they are right now.

The world is safer now than it ever has been before. Wars have been on the decline. The last decade has seen fewer war deaths than in any decade in the past 100 years, according to data from researchers at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

It’s easier to connect with someone you share the same values with than ever before. Do you have internet friends? I’m talking about friends who you have never met in person, yet you feel closer to them than nearly all of your real life friends? I think a growing number of us do. It used to be, if you were a freak in a say small town in middle America, you would probably feel out of place and lonely because the freaks like you were few and far between.

But the moment you were able to connect to freaks around the world, suddenly you had a community of your own. In fact, you no longer felt like a freak. Every day, less of us feel like freaks when we connect with online communities.

You are not alone. Yes, life is good.