Some – mainly physical - things are getting better. See the recent posting from The Spectator. Nicholas Kristof has a similar article in Sunday’s NY Times. He touts that 2019 was “the year in which children were least likely to die, adults were least likely to be illiterate and people were least likely to suffer excruciating and disfiguring diseases.”
It’s true, but it’s also true that mass killings have exploded; we’re not doing much, other than talking, about climate change; racism is still a major driver here; the quality of our leadership in the Senate and Congress has diminished; inequality has gotten worse; our government is driven by our own form of oligarchs; the weather is the strangest I have lived through; our government’s debt is the highest it’s ever been; we believe that our military is the greatest in the world; and, of course, we are living under the worst and wierdest president we have ever had.
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