Someone should coin "the law of 2020". It means if you post something positive these days, people try hard to find the negative. If you dare try and laugh, people will scald you. If you share good news, people will point to privilege or bad news to counteract it. Any wonderful data point is met with " yeah but what about XXXX" If you point out the huge signs of progress in the world, people will point out your ignorance. It's driven by the media, and their accidental ( and unacknowledged addiction to cheap clicks, which play to misery and fears) Its distorted our sense of the world, it's genuinely blinded the media to any positivity and algorithms neutralize the ability of good or reassuring news to spread. It's like a giant self righteous woke festival of misery, a competition to be more anxious, more pious. There is zero evidence life should be lived in a serious manner. We are all going to die. We can fight for change and justice and for better, and maybe without being so god dam miserable and judgmental and serious. It's not some giant competition to self flagellate with self imposed misery, unless I missed the "this is life in 2020" email. …see more