The world

[Edvin00]

Anybody wants to talk about the dark world we live in today... Politics,Media,Wars?

[truongk20]

@ryan1999 Are you from the US?

[Edvin00]

@truongk20 No from Canada !

[truongk20]

Lol then you've got it relatively good up there with your healthcare and your attractive PMs. Say, is out alt-right population leaking into you guys' country?

[Edvin00]

@truongk20 That doesn't mean i don't care about the rest of the world !

[truongk20]

@ryan1999 Okay, have you ever read Fareed Zakaria's "Post-American World"?

[Edvin00]

@truongk20 I didn't read it but i basically studied the same subject and did a project on it last june !

[truongk20]

@ryan1999 Nice. Well Zakaria's got a few good reads, and posits the bold claim that maybe the world isn't as shitty as many of us think (at least not for the reasons a lot of people think). Life expectancy is at an all-time high, infant mortality is at a low. Of course you'd never be able to tell by watching the news. They want you to think the world is ending.

Of course there are plenty of crappy things, don't get me wrong. But I like to think we're making (slow) progress.

[Edvin00]

@truongk20 You're right the media isn't the real world and if we take a look back at the 60s,70s,80-90s and compare it to today, we've made some good progress but we still cannot find peace! But i'm happy talking to someone like you! tell me, where you from ?

[truongk20]

@ryan1999 I'm from Oklahoma, studying in Virginia, USA. I'm just young enough that I believe my grandchildren will see a post-scarcity world.

[Edvin00]

@truongk20 i'm 17 myself so...