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Evil has always dominated. Look into history and... yea
Monarchies ruled the world, religions brainwash people, witchhunts, wars, famine, and slavery, all the evils was 10 times as bad. We are living in the most peaceful time in history (well... aside from the Climate Change ๐)
Social media, and mass communications make everything seem worse than it actually is.
Because it is. In many ways this is the West getting what was coming to it, but in any case you have rising evil and collaborationist "good" that's too weak-willed or out of touch to stop it. Then you have the real good bickering among itself and too far up its ass to stop any of it.
Nothing has changed. The world is the same as its ever been. Maybe you have discovered a new definition of what you consider evil. What do you mean by evil? I doubt the ones you consider evil would consider themselves as such. There exists no good and no evil. There are only events that transpire and actions that take place. The world has no preference for such human concepts.
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Because you're reading too much news and the intention of majority of them is not to make you informed but scared and angry. The vast majority of thing you're scared about never end up happening.
This is exactly what I was going to say. The news economy, and the algorithm economy, both depend on grabbing attention.
If you make a news article saying everything's a kind of okay right now, nobody's going to read it and look at your ads or click on anything.
If you say oh my God the municipal water boards totally f***** you won't believe what they just did, people are going to click to see what the hell happened. And then you say everything's mostly okay, but the commissioner wore a weird tie to the meeting....
Because we get bombarded with the negative parts.
Because it's evolutionarily ingrained across life that individuals with a higher quality and quantity of offspring eventually dominate populations. And people who think more of others and less of themselves are usually not very good at that.
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