I'm really glad to have caught up with this. The more one sees of the counter-narrative to the apocalyptic, the more you have to wonder at how to spread the positive message. It frustrates me immensely, that people like Matt Ridley, Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg and a plethora of other positive thoughtful voices are ignored in favour of constant doom.
I wanted high hopes for GB News to be a
counter-narrative to the usual MSM suspects version of doom. But it looks like
they have fallen into the same trap of espousing the equal and opposite bad
news to their audience like the polar opposite to the MSM old guard. Which
leaves it up to the individual to go and seek positive affirmation regarding
the future. But as Matt Ridley pointed out early in the discussion people don't seem to
be incentivised to do so of their own accord, unless it's something fluffy,
cute or relatively irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. But the evidence
of everything being better is everywhere, on all these social media platforms,
Youtube etc, people share education, jokes and skits and fluff. So, you have
to conclude that if our part of the world were so terrible we probably wouldn't
be inclined to have so much fun, and yet as both of these commenters noted; we all seem to
believe the sky is falling in, while our lifestyle tells us, moment to moment
the complete opposite.
Rational optimism, Peter Jordan has a discussion with Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley's Rational Optimist Blog
The book of the same name The Rational Optimist.
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