I find it funny that somehow the Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight today than it was when the two biggest world powers were in a nuclear standoff, and JFK would say something flowerly and inspiring sounding that was really meaningless bullshit and Khrushchev would respond by angrily banging his shoe on the table while shouting at the top of his lungs, “WE WILL BURY YOU!!!”
It’s more of a meaningless political tool than anything else, even with terrorism the world is the safest it has ever been, the only major war right now being in Syria, less than a dozen minor wars raging like Donbass, Afghanistan, Mali and so forth, and the only country that is crazy enough to threaten others with nukes, North Korea, sitting on the negotiation table after they got threatened back.
It’s bullshit man.
None of the world’s top 40 economies have directly fought since 1945. Colonial wars of independence have ended and even minor wars have largely trailed off to insurgencies, terrorism, and resistance movements instead of major battles.
It’s called the Long Peace. Combined with recent advances in medicine, it means that no humans in recorded history have ever been less likely to die in combat than the ones reading this today.
If you’re American, then you’ll also be pleased to know that both violent crime and property crime have plummeted by ~50% since the most recent peak in the mid-90′s.
The number of people living in poverty is actually on a downward trend, contrary to popular belief. In fact, the number of people living in “extreme” or “absolute” poverty has dropped sharply in the past few decades.
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