Want to know why 1940s Americans were the Greatest Generation and we’re the Grumpiest Generation? For them, at a time when Europe and the Pacific were ruled by actual fascists carrying out mass murder and US troops were under fire, mass culture was all ironclad optimism — “Oklahoma!” and “Meet Me in St. Louis.”
Today, we have mass hysteria when a TV star stages an obviously fake hate crime in Chicago, Chuck Todd calls the 2010s “the worst decade in politics,” a cover story in The Atlantic wonders if we’re on the brink of civil war, and a Washington Post column claims “Americans are at each other’s throats.”
Rubbish. Nearly everything right now is actually awesome.
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WNU editor: Putting everything into a better perspective .... The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster than Anyone Else: In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%. (Foundation For Economic Education).