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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Are You Getting Better, Not Worse?
jeordan: I was steeped in pessimism as a young man. It came as quite a shock when i found that the world was getting better during my life, dramatically so. Why is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we're to expect nothing but deterioration before us? That's a great quote, and it's not me. It's thomas babington macaulay, lord macaulay writing eighteen, thirty. He was fed up with the doomsters saying, it can't get better. And that's what every generation says. And i think, so far, they've been wrong. And i think hite's a good chance they're wrong now.
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