Episode 13: Moral Heroes
Morality in the 21st Century
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Is the World Going to Hell in a Handcart?
I do agree that its very, very important to step back from our obsessive pessimism and our anxieties. There's a phenomenon in poling called the optimism gap where if you ask people about their own lives, they actually say they're going pretty well. If you ask them about the world as a whole, or the country as a whole,. they say that it's going to hell in a handcart. And by the way, the view of the trajectory of the world that i present is certainly not based on lipen in oxford or boston or new york. Its based on data from the worldAs a whole, such as the fact that the number of democracies as increased
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