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The problem with good news is that most people's political positions are built on a narrative that everything is terrible.
by toasterlovin 9y ago
The problem with good news is that most people's political positions are built on a narrative that everything is terrible.
- mpweiher 9y agoTrue. What's funny is that if you ask people how their individual circumstances are, they overwhelmingly answer "good and improving". But then you ask them about the state of the world and they answer "horrible and getting worse". And of course politicians have also been at it for some time. See Adam Curtis's excellent The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear. https://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares-AdamCurtis https://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares-AdamCurtis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares