I agree with you and think we should largely ignore all the Cassandras. The media focuses on the bad stuff and wants you to believe the sky is falling in.
However. you're right in that people are generally better off because of technology and health care, less people are living in extreme poverty, even terrorist attacks are fewer now compared to the 70s and 80s (IRA bombings and ETA attacks anyone?). But if you follow the news, you wouldn't know any of this. They'd have you think ISIS and the Middle East is the worst crisis we've ever faced.
Good post, thanks for writing it.
Thanks for that, terrorism is terrible, but people are too easily terrified.
The media is almost an eager accomplice of the terrorists, they do the work for them of terrorising the population by constantly focussing on these issues. I think overall the media does more real damage than the idiots blowing themselves up.
It is only by this attention that the media pays to them that it is worth it for them...
In the '80s indeed there were a lot of bloody attacks but life went on...
I know a lady who was in a parking lot where an ETA bomb went off, she did not let it affect her life and continued shopping at that same mall.
People seem to forget that terrorists only win if you let them terrorize you...