[Dean's World] Dave Price: Living Large

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Posted by Dave Price:
Living Large
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1203021506.shtml


   Great video from Drew Carey on [1]how life keeps getting better for
   American. Even with all its challenges, this truly is a Platinum Age,
   and tomorrow will be better yet.
   Drew blames the media for creating these images of doom and gloom, and
   he's right, but it's important to remember news is always going to
   skew negative. This is not because news programs want to bum everyone
   out, but because humans have (not surprisingly) evolved a strong
   information-seeking preference for bad news over good, so the news
   media give us what we want (else we would watch their competitors).
   The survival value of such a preference for bad news for early humans
   in a very hostile prehistoric world is probably self-evident enough to
   need no explanation.

References

   1. http://reason.tv/video/show/61.html