Take longevity, perhaps the most basic measure of well-being. Drawing on the research of dozens of historians, economists and social scientists, the Harvard psychology professor demonstrates that for an ever-greater portion of humanity, things are far sunnier than they were just decades ago. Pinker’s assertions may sound fanciful, but they’re supported by detailed data. And not just a little wrong - wrong wrong, flat-earth wrong, couldn’t- be-more-wrong.” Though our “first-world ingratitude” often prevents us from realizing it in the moment, “life has gotten longer, healthier, richer, safer, happier, freer, smarter, deeper, and more interesting.”
But “this bleak assessment of the state of the world is wrong. There’s a not-uncommon perception, Pinker writes, that we’re in a period of societal decay, that everything’s coming apart before our eyes.
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