The Road to Utopia: A manifesto for reclaiming a humanist future (2020)
&gt; The American West is burning. The Arctic is melting. Populism and authoritarianism are on the rise. Nearly a million people have died from the coronavirus. Economic inequality continues to grow, only accelerated by the pandemic.<p>Compared to what came a couple of generations before, all those &quot;bad&quot; things are either imaginary or not very serious. It&#x27;s ridiculous that people are wringing their hands over them. Of course we&#x27;re going to find something to worry about if there are no actual problems. That sounds like a pretty good state to be in compared to having a world war (killed 10s of millions) or HIV (killed 10s of millions) or the Spanish Flu (killed 10s of millions), or actual communist dictatorships (killed 10&#x27;s of millions).<p>I&#x27;d say technology enabled all that good and we&#x27;re living in a technological utopia which is still getting better and better. There&#x27;s just some strange social effect causing people to blind themselves to the greatest achievement in the history of the Earth.