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It's practically modern culture to be negative about everything. When there are two equally probable outcomes I've noticed that people tend to lavish on the neg
by dammitcoetzee 10y ago
It's practically modern culture to be negative about everything. When there are two equally probable outcomes I've noticed that people tend to lavish on the negative one to exclusion and treat people with positive outlooks as annoying, chipper, ignorant, or immature. It's odd. My theory is that positivity requires some claim of responsibility over the outcome while negatively allows one to divorce themselves from it.
- refurb 10y agoI also think it's human nature. Humans are always looking to better themselves. Take someone from 1900 and bring them to 2016. They would think they are living in paradise...for a while. Then they would get used to it and start thinking about everything that's wrong and how to fix it. Now, on the plus side it's that drive that improves the human condition. But it comes with a lot of negatives too.