Is the Past Better Than the Present?

The way our attention and ampathy are captured by human stories makes us vulnerable to bad actors who can game the system. That's what school shootings consist of. These are people who are desperate for for fame, notoriety. Therare nobodies who want to become somebodies. They know that they can do it, that a guaranteed route to fame is to kill a lot of innocent people in a short period of time. And statistics, sadly, are just not as emotionally compelling as people. Iti takes into account all the happy, fulfilled lives that we never hear about because nothing goes wrong. The people who bring up their kids, the kids get an educationhy have children in their turn...