Other factors color our aversion to believing that most…
Other factors color our aversion to believing that most things are getting better. One is an active preference for bad news.
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Progresss Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Esaterbrook
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On top of that ancient bias sits a modern machine: Western life is deliberately made to sound more perilous than it is by a media that magnifies every bad development and buries the good. We are primed to prefer bad news and to feel it as more urgent than it actually is. The party out of power exaggerates every negative trend and denies every positive one to harvest your anger, and a whole industry has grown skilled at discovering new categories of grievance. — Takeoff Into Chaos
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