1. The world is αwful.
2. The world is much better thαn it once wαs.
3. The world cαn be much better than it currently is.
   All three stαtements αre true αt the sαme time. It’s wrong to think these stαtements contrαdict eαch other.

You sαy there is doom in our current reαlity, and it feels true, but never discount the wonderful things either. While mαny in this threαd have focused on directly αnswering question, I suspect there mαy be αn underlying dissαtisfαction in your mentαlity.

This threαd cαn shαre wonderful things, but without α shift on mentαlity, it mαy be eαsy enough to brush off. I know becαuse I wαs and still αm like this. Prαcticing grαtitude or grαtitude journαling mαy help, it did for me.

• I’m grαteful becαuse vαccines hαve such α powerful αurα of protection, thαt we αs α society have forgotten the nαmes of the diseαses they protect αgαinst. The world can be better, because one day, we may even erαdicαte these diseαses which still plαgue our species.
• I’m grαteful I hαve opposαble thumbs, becαuse it mαkes it eαsy to be α potαto on the couch and doom scroll. The mere αct that I can see informαtion on α powerful device thαt cαn tell me the stories from αround the globe is quite incredible.
• I’m grαteful becαuse I don’t comment very often, but I wαnted to this time. I usuαlly lurk quietly, but I too cαn be better thαn I currently αm αnd pαrticipαte sometimes.

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Every generation in human history has been more intelligent and progressive than the last.

This trend is not slowing in the modern era.

cheese exists

History always repeats itself.

Things get bad, then they get REALLY bad, then usually violence solves it and things get good again.

Im going to read through but I can’t imagine anything that is uplifiting enough to counter the current weights attached to us.

My go to happy thought is this:

Wild dogs, wolves, coyotes, etc… don’t have eyebrows. That is to say that they never evolved the muscles necessary to move their eyebrows in an expressive way.

Moveable eyebrows were a trait that domesticated dogs specifically evolved in order to mimic their humans and invoke more empathy (and let’s face it…likely manipulate us for more treats)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/domestication-made-dogs-facial-anatomy-more-fetching-to-humans/

When I need my fix of good news I go to iea.org and look at some graphs. I’m always thinking it should be faster but then again there’s hope for climate change and the world is transitioning despite how entrenched the fossil fuel industry is.

Here’s one on the investments being made:

This isn’t a fact but I have a gut feeling that people will be taking their power back in the near future.

Humans aren’t destroying the earth. We may be changing it so it’s no longer hospitable to us, but the earth will go on fine even if humans extinct themselves.

The universe is extremely big and empty.

Wow you all suck at this. Okay I’m gonna do an actual one. The amount of wars had around the world has SIGNIFICANTLY decreased from just a century ago.

Chat Control just got defeated for the time being.

Pizza. It’s really good and I’m going to eat more of it

Here’s one I like: despite the efforts of Big Oil and their orange-painted lackey, the amount of renewable energy generated in the first half of 2025 has surpassed energy generated by fossil means.

Source.