The barbarians aren’t at the gate, Genghis Khan ain’t riding across Central Asia, Japan is unified, America isn’t in the midst of a civil war, and Europe is trying this union thing on to see how that goes, and the relative fallout if it doesn’t work out looks fairly minor compared to the Napoleonic Wars, the Franco-Prussian Wars, two World Wars and the Iron Curtain.
I know I know, recency bias and all that, but the world is pretty great these days, even if 2020 seems a low point in our lives.
I know I know, recency bias and all that, but the world is pretty great these days, even if 2020 seems a low point in our lives.