And statistically worse in many ways. Statistics are just euphemism for history, prior observation; stats exist for both categories. We can write and carry on a

And statistically worse in many ways. Statistics are just euphemism for history, prior observation; stats exist for both categories. We can write and carry on about wars we won and ignore Vietnam with stats just as we do English. It's just a language that lets us ignore physical reality like religious catechism; same biological ability to delude ourselves. There's the whole ignoring externalities of capitalism and reality itself for toxic positivity thing. Sure is great though watching where I grew up slowly become engulfed in wildfire smoke; something that never happened until 10 years ago.