Dystopia has been the subject of recent books and movies, i.e. Hunger Games, The 100, Divergence, etc. Some people have the feeling that doom and disaster is coming for the world, whether through poverty or disease or aliens or climate change or . . something.
Materialists, those who believe in nothing but the material universe, tend to believe in a coming doomsday. But
Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic magazine, is a materialist - and he definitely does
not think the world is getting worse.
photo: businessinsider.com
Shermer thinks we're fortunate to be living in the "
most peaceful, most prosperous" time in human history. He says, "
There is no period in history when it would have been better to be alive than today."
(cont'd tomorrow)
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