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RE: Is This The Best Time Ever To Be Alive?
I definitely think we are living in the best and most exciting times ever. But I'm an optimist and a futurist. It's thrilling to me to be on the leading edge of things and to imagine how current developments in technology, philosophy, and our understanding of the cosmos might spiral out into future possibilities. Not everyone is an optimist or a futurist. Many people are luddites and cynics, and I've often heard people opine about the "good old days" of simpler life in an agrarian society. So I guess it's subjective. And I think that people in times past would have been similarly split in their views.
Yeah it's interesting, as I read your comment and others on this post, I think what it is that the further back you go, the more well of you would have to be to say; 'we are living in the best time', for instance a well off Victorian industrialist may well have said that, not so for the 8 year old's working in his factories.
Still today there is inequality, however the number of people whom might say we're living in the best times has grown exponentially, maybe this is at the heart of progress . . .
Great to hear from you again by the way! :-)
Cg
Good to be back!