Topic: We are living in the best period known to man! - page 2. (Read 454 times)

I agree. While the life expectancy is growing due to less people dying from things that are easy to cure and uset do be a menace back in the day, like consumption, more and more people succumb to cancer. Many food additives were proven to be unhealthy but they were not removed from products. One of them is nitrate which can be found in almost every product, even in fresh vegetables and unprocessed meat.

You, again, have a piss poor reading comprehension grade.   

"The media will have you believe......"  is not 'me essentially saying'

My post was very clear,  point / counter-point
Media tells you one thing / facts state another.

This generation is the first one to have a life expectancy that is shorter than the previous one. This is due to toxic diets, unhealthy health care, drug abuse, and the globalists eugenics plans.

Yep, I saw those.

It is similar thing when it comes to crime rate in the U.S.



One would think that majority of people will notice this decline in crime, but no, same story.



People are simply more inclined to notice negative , than positive. And it is a shame, as we are obviously making progress, despite what media likes to serve us.

But how can we trust the accuracy of these values,mostly media just using their power to manipulate the people as they want so we are believing that we are living in better world.Having more advanced technology or more money is not alone the best living style but we also need to have better and peaceful life.In reality we are just running and running behind the money until we die.

Of course civilizations get better with time. That's why they all essentially vanish off the face of the earth after a while.

And according to you, you essentially said that police are thugs, even though their thuggery is declining, without stating it out directly point blank. See the highlighted area above. What I said simply expresses what you said in more detail.

If you didn't mean that, don't you think you should say what you mean?

I would think most civilizations get better as they get older.   We are very close to our peak though, and will be descending rapidly.

No, the point is exactly what the statistics show, regardless of your skewed mentality

And of course, the point is, that police are thugs, and that lately, because of all the Internet communications, and because of all the police brutality websites, cops are becoming more and more scared to do their thuggery.

So, it isn't that cops ware becoming honest, or are becoming noble. Rather, its that their hand is being called.


Cities hire cops. If the cities really wanted to get rid of the bad element among them, they would arm everyone. But the city leaders want to dominate their citizens. So they hire cops... who step over the limits a bit sometimes. If the city leaders wanted fair play, they would arm the citizens and fire the cops.

I would say the best AND worst. We've seen great improvement in living standards but it could also cost us our future if we don't manage the planet correctly.


Correct. For news to sell, it must be sensational enough for people to bother checking it out. Hence the clickbait we now have in the digital age.

Want to see another one?

Dig up stats on police shootings and police use of force.

The media will have you believe that American policing is nothing but racist thugs shooting everyone.
But the statistics will prove to you that police involved shootings and use of force has been steadily declining for 50 years

Here's NYPD
https://images.app.goo.gl/oon2XAzL2ix78PzM8

If you'd been watching the news though, you'd think that there is more violence in the world, more poverty, incomes going down, and so on and so forth.

People don't understand that sadness sells, good times don't sell for the news.

Thanks for the charts and such, this is very helpful!

...and yet somehow the majority of people believe that the world was a better place 20,30,50 years ago. Why is that when all major statistics show it otherwise?
Is it media, ignorance, a tendency to look at the past through rose tinted glasses, nostalgia? Or maybe all of it combined?

So let's look at some  statistics how the world has  changed through the years:


Extreme poverty

This is one of the basic metrics. As seen in the picture, less than 40 years ago a huge percentage of people lived in extreme poverty, by 1990 the number was still big but decreasing, almost 35% of the world population still lived in extreme poverty.And now, approximately 10% people still live in extreme poverty. Of course that is still big number, but the change is obvious, and the change is huge! That number is expected to decrease to under 5% by 2030.
Just to add, the poverty line is set at $1.90 per day and it is adjusted per income level in each country.






Child mortality

In the 1800s more than 40% children didn't survive their first 5 years, in the next 100 years that number dropped to 36%, in 1960 the number dropped to 18%, and currently we are at 4%. Astonishing progress!








Life expectancy

Yet another example of how we are improving, the chart says it all. For example, life expectancy in Africa in 1950 was only 35 years, and currently it is at almost 60 years.That makes it approximately a 70% increase in less than 60 years. The increase in Asia is even more remarkable, 75% in the same period! But not only less developed regions increased life expectancy, it is the case in the most developed regions too.







Literacy

In 1950, 44% of the world population was illiterate, and in the next 60 years that number decreased to under 15%, with an obvious tendency to decrease further.



Charts source



As seen from this data, world is improving, people are living better in general, whether we notice it or not.

Of course, there is much work to do, there are many areas that need improvement, and some issues have to be tackled  more seriously like the environment, but it is safe to say that we are moving forward as a species and people should be a bit more optimistic about the future. There are less wars than before, less famines, less violence.
Pessimists would like to say that nuclear war could change all that very fast, but we were in bigger danger of that 50-60 years ago than we are now.

But the media like to paint a different picture, they know that what sells best are the bad news, and today we are more connected than ever, getting news from all over the world and giving us the impression that world is going for worse, while the situation is actually different, when looked from distance, and when we are looking at the big picture.


What's your take on all this?