It&#x27;s a human psychology thing, and not that objective. Negative news (and The News is always novel, crucial, negative, threatening but...) is always heard in our present.<p>This may seem obvious, but it means that it&#x27;s really hard for humans to step out of time and see events with the lens of history.<p>Our psychology, and the news panders to this, thinks that RIGHT NOW is the most crucial, important, serious of times of all times.<p>Every year we think that. It is not that every year things are getting progressively worse. Not at all. It&#x27;s that we cannot see things for what they are. Objectively and relative to each other, without our present day emotions.