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Opinion | Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse (www.nytimes.com)

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Our biased attention means we’ll always feel like we’re living in dark times, and our biased memory means we’ll always feel like the past was brighter.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So what are you saying? That the middle of the AIDS crisis was a better time to be a gay man than now because there's still a chance they may be shot today? LGBT people can still become homeless today, like anyone else, but it was way more prevalent a few decades ago when it was legal to fire them for being LGBT.

It seems to me, most of the improvements were in raising the floor of society (disallowing discrimination based on various factors) which generally go ignored by more privileged people like myself. But the recent declines lowered the ceiling of society in ways that affect everyone, but less than the gains made by minority/oppressed peoples in recent decades.