Beyond these are factors of human nature itself
Beyond these are factors of human nature itself. One is the pos-sibility that evolution has conditioned us to believe the worst.
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Progresss Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Esaterbrook
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And you are working against a powerful headwind here, one built into both your wiring and your world. Evolution seems to have conditioned us to believe the worst, because the pilot who assumed every shadow was a predator left more descendants than the one who assumed it was nothing. 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. — Takeoff Into Chaos
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