The end isn't nigh, we choose easy, and comparison is a con

Default reactions are hard to overcome, precisely because they're our default response to whatever is coming our way. We have to take a moment to stop and do something different. Something outside our natural reaction. Today is all about looking at our defaults and choosing something else. The end isn't nigh Everything about our situation as humans pushes us to overrate the importance of our own era. Apart from anything else, present-day unknowns feel the scariest, because all previous unknowns eventually resolved themselves into knowns (every prior prediction of the end of the world turned out to be wrong) while future ones haven’t occurred to us yet. - The end isn't nigh Yes things are in limbo for many now. Affordability is at an all time low in many countries. Income inequality is at an all time high. Most of the world is struggling while a few people have billions of dollars. This is a good reminder that we have a tendency to view our current problems as the worst problems anyone…