Opinion | Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse (www.nytimes.com)

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Our biased attention means we’ll always feel like we’re living in dark times, and our biased memory means we’ll always feel like the past was brighter.

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[-] mem_somerville_kbin@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Well, I think Reddark is really legit dark. But I agree on the other points. Your brain stores negative stuff more than positive stuff. But the last line is the kicker:

As long as we believe in this illusion, we are susceptible to the promises of aspiring autocrats who claim they can return us to a golden age that exists in the only place a golden age has ever existed: our imaginations.

Here is their accompanying paper: The illusion of moral decline https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x

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