Besides, even if you talk to people who lived through wars or famines, few of them wish they hadn't been born. People find happiness and meaning everywhere. From interviews I have read, people living through wars find their lives more meaningful rather than less.
> could you stand to live in a total police state, even if you're safe (from the outside) and relatively wealthy (compared to a refugee)?
Probably. But I don't think anything like that is likely. I think there will be fewer police states in the future.
It's odd how people living in poorer and less well-managed countries are much more optimistic about the future than people living in the West.
I don't think anybody studying the history of civil wars or famine believe that that is likely to happen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/civil-war-united-stat...
Besides, even if you talk to people who lived through wars or famines, few of them wish they hadn't been born. People find happiness and meaning everywhere. From interviews I have read, people living through wars find their lives more meaningful rather than less.
> could you stand to live in a total police state, even if you're safe (from the outside) and relatively wealthy (compared to a refugee)?
Probably. But I don't think anything like that is likely. I think there will be fewer police states in the future.
It's odd how people living in poorer and less well-managed countries are much more optimistic about the future than people living in the West.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactiv...
I wonder if it's just spending too much time on social media and too little time reading history books that make people so pessimistic...