Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Pretty Good Year

 Jonathan Alter explains why 2022 was a pretty good year. This is a reasonable position to take, but as I and others have noted, we are addicted to doom.

Things could be getting better, but we won't "feel" like they are getting better, because we have wired ourselves not to feel good news.

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