Objectively speaking, we live in a pretty nice world, in a relative sense. Thing is humans, especially young humans, struggle with being able to analyze and assess all the variables involved in making judgement calls about the entire global state let alone use objective facts in order to compare and contrast it to other time periods. Its also common with human psychology for individuals to take for granted what they have, still want more, and have a negative attitude when things aren't as perfect as they think things should be.
Chances are everyone in this thread who has posted, has access to clean water, a soft pillow, toilet paper, fresh and plentiful amounts of food and shelter. Congratulations, you have it better than the majority of humans that ever lived, including some Kings, Queens, Emperors. Also no one should think that the news is a good source for accurate representation of reality. The news by definition is suppose to cover noteworthy, important, rare, odd, extreme events, and not reflect or represent reality in a proportionately accurate way. If the news was an hour show filled with 59 minutes of "everything was okay and boring for millions of people", oh, but a few thousand had issues with car accidents, robbery, occasional violent crime and murder in one minute, no one would watch, or they would tune in for one minute.
If you feel the world is crappy? You can go on Youtube and watch your favorite music videos. Thousands of different documentaries, some about aliens, some about dinosaurs. You can see videos of incredible animals, locations, buildings, nature, in hundreds of different countries and cities. You can Google Image pictures of kittens and puppies and sexy woman and sexy men. 50 years ago if you were feeling crappy, you know what you had to do? Go outside and talk to a stick. Yet even that would have a better time than 200 years ago, when you couldn't even go outside and if you did touch a stick you would die from a disease. 20 000 years ago, you were already outside all the time, and you could touch sticks, because some other hairy cave guy was trying to kill or rape you. Okay I started exaggerating at the end there, but my point is the world is not crappy. Heres another important thing, its not that uncommon or weird that despite that, a lot of people, especially young people feel that the world is crappy. Thats actually more to do with modern living having a lot of pressures, expectations, stimuli, information, and pace to it, so it can be incredibly hard to get a good sense and perspective of things, temper emotions and ego. I don't mean to dismiss or undermine anyone who feels like the world is a dark, scary, crappy, lonely or sad place. Rather its just not an accurate reflection of reality. Of course, lots of bad things for our species to try and fix, overcome and cope with as well, war is still a thing, a large amount of people don't have access to clean water, food, shelter, education, internet, but the overall trend is that things on the whole are improving for everyone.
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