It's crazy. But then again there's a large part of me that thinks the negativity-obsession is weirdly an endearing trait of human beings. If humans are by nature empathetic, then you might predict a myopia towards the terrible features of our species so that we can identify and alleviate it! So that's a way to look at it optimistically haha

I get concerned when that obsession, while well-intentioned, ends up working against its own goal. We stop looking at what progress we have already made and conflate any talk about the productive things with "denying there is any problem at all".

But that is exactly NOT what I'm saying! I'm saying that to further the amelioration of human suffering requires identifying the factors that have contributed to the progress made thusfar, and improving those factors, guiding the process in the direction those factors pointed.

Rant over. Lol