Intellectuals, politicians, tort lawyers, and the media have in…

Intellectuals, politicians, tort lawyers, and the media have in the last few decades become ever more proficient at discovering vie tims. So many classes of victimhood have been proclaimed that, in cumulative terms, today every person in the United States may be able to call himself or herself a victim of something or other; leaving aside the question of, if we're all victims, then who did the victimizing?

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Progresss Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Esaterbrook

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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. The cruel irony is that all this noise about small, vivid risks actually leaves us worse at noticing the large, quiet ones that matter. — Takeoff Into Chaos

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