What do people think of maintaining historical perspective when dealing with life's nonsense? It's a strategy that works well for me.
On a related note, when my mom died in 2020, I discovered a similar line of thinking helps me: My parents, and their parents,and their parents, dealt with the death of Mom and Dad. But they all lived full, happy lives, anyway.
The world is not necessarily getting worse. We are simply being shown everything bad, from everywhere, all at once. History gives the present its proper size.
I don't think it's getting worse. We are just more aware of the bad things, as you said. That isn't to say there aren't huge challenges and problems here and abroad. There are. But reading about past problems and how men dealt with them cuts our problems down to size. For me, anyway.
Although I will argue that, for those who had to take the fall in their own eras, they may push back on the idea that “we all get through it.” However, as a species, yes, we always survive and adapt to our new surroundings.
I, too, have embraced AI; it is thorough and reliable for research. I confess I couldn’t be without it now 🏛
AI is a big help with my research and article drafting. It's very helpful to identify patterns in writing and how to improve the draft. However, if I published Claude's initial draft, even supposedly in my voice, no one would read it! It still takes heavy editing to get to the final draft I published.
What do people think of maintaining historical perspective when dealing with life's nonsense? It's a strategy that works well for me.
On a related note, when my mom died in 2020, I discovered a similar line of thinking helps me: My parents, and their parents,and their parents, dealt with the death of Mom and Dad. But they all lived full, happy lives, anyway.
People have been here before.
I think it's a great way to *really* keep things in perspective.
I was engaging in Stoic thinking and didn't even realize it back then.
The world is not necessarily getting worse. We are simply being shown everything bad, from everywhere, all at once. History gives the present its proper size.
I don't think it's getting worse. We are just more aware of the bad things, as you said. That isn't to say there aren't huge challenges and problems here and abroad. There are. But reading about past problems and how men dealt with them cuts our problems down to size. For me, anyway.
Encouraging piece, Joseph. Thanks for posting.
Although I will argue that, for those who had to take the fall in their own eras, they may push back on the idea that “we all get through it.” However, as a species, yes, we always survive and adapt to our new surroundings.
I, too, have embraced AI; it is thorough and reliable for research. I confess I couldn’t be without it now 🏛
AI is a big help with my research and article drafting. It's very helpful to identify patterns in writing and how to improve the draft. However, if I published Claude's initial draft, even supposedly in my voice, no one would read it! It still takes heavy editing to get to the final draft I published.