People are feeling bad because they're told to feel bad

Be on guard about what you let into your mind. I have become aware of the conversations today about how people in 2023 are feeling bad about things. There's just a air of negativity that seems to infect nearly all conversations at some point. I've heard all kinds of talking heads explain why that is. From the breakdown of the nuclear family, the absence of god, the lack of strong role models, wokness, far right nationalism, lack of gender identity, too many guns, blah blah, etc. etc. It is attention getting and has the appearance of being right.

Well I've got some good news and bad news. The good news is that people feel bad because they're being told to feel bad. Then we're given extensive reasons and logic why that's true. And we naturally believe things that appear to be true. That's what we spent 12 years in school learning to do. But they are only opinions. Those talking heads telling us to feel bad are heavily invested in being right, so they come up with all kinds of reasons why they should be right and we should be miserable. And they have just enough logical correctness that we agree, but lead us into mental and emotional weeds in the process. 

I don't think they to do this intentionally. They are just heavily invested in sounding right.

The bad news is that we believe it. We're becoming a generation of people that really believe bad news. It's time to stop believing all the negative stuff we're told. It is time to begin challenging the hand-wringing opinions about our times and rejecting the half-assed explanations that are flipped out there under the banner of authority.

We live in the most amazing time in the history of man. And it's going to get better. It will be different, and therefore uncomfortable, but it really is pretty fantastic. What we're seeing in terms of global negativity, if that's what we want to call it, has been seen thousands of times before us. And it will be seeing thousands of times in the future. It's time to think different. It's time to think on your own. It's time to take your world back and see for what it: awesome, full of opportunity, full of delight. Go get some.