I do think a lot of people, maybe even the majority seem to focus their attention and energy in negative things.
But when thinking about the past I wonder if people from the 50s were happier? people from the 1800s were happier? what about people from the 1500s?
And my answer is no to each and every one of those questions.
Even with all the problems we might have with our societies, we are certainly better than before.
I don't know any person who would prefer to live in the 1700s for example and not live right now in the 2000s.
That is why I actually think we are getting better, and we might be living the best time for humanity, and even getting better every year (would someone prefer to live in the 90s? or be currently living in 2018?)
For me, my recover involved confronting all the negative shit in my life ... all of it. Everything was on the table. Focusing on the negative allowed me to shine a light on it so that I could heal it. So I'm more than willing to shine a light on any negative stuff I find. That way I can heal and return to neutral position. I can then deal with the light and the dark, being able to move both ways without blockage or anxiety.
As for people who lived in the past, I'm sure almost every singe indiginous individual alive today on Turtle Island would say that they were better off hundreds of years ago compared to today. People who have experienced hundreds of years of genocide that continues to this very moment may disagree with you that people back then were happier than they are today.
What is the foundation for your assessment of 'we are getting better, and we might be living the best time for humanity'? Is it based on standard of living, technology, life style? For me, I see debt slavery, feudal serfs, greed and violence at every street corner, voting box and cash register. I see people so detached from spirit that they engage in violence very single day and justify it or even see it as being okay or normal.
Well, I am working hard to return to the land. Some would think that I'm returning to the 1700's with the way we live. What ever judgements people use, so be it. I don't care. I'm on a spiritual journey and it requires that I return to the land and work hard on many aspects of my relationships with myself, others, Creator and Mother Earth. In my view, the indigenous peoples of the 1700's were the closest to that, than any colonized region of this planet.
We won't be getting better until we end the violence and one of the first steps is to heal ourselves and decolonize in order to find peaceful relationships and self-governance.
We have more knowledge and a better life than before. We have a higher understanding about our reality, our general knowledge is advancing constantly.
Even if it might be hard to realize, today we have less poverty than in the past and better health than in the past.
I would like to know what was the best time of humanity in your opinion? the indigenous peoples of the 1700's?
For me, it is clearly the present.
Was the past any different?
It is very funny to read that since we are having this conversation using technology that didn't exist until 2 years ago (Steem blockchain).