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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jul 2018

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted David Frum

    This obviously reflects a mood rather than a realistic assesment of the past because very few people would actually swap life then as it really was with today—height of Vietnam war, assasination of Martin Luther King Jr., much much *much* worse human/civil rights situation...https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1014020408587247616 …

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    David FrumVerified account @davidfrum
    By margin 41-37, Americans say life is worse than 50 years ago (1968!!!!) - one of most pessimistic responses in developed world https://twitter.com/pewglobal/status/1013808525615796229 …
    9:29 AM - 3 Jul 2018
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      1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jul 2018

        A.k.a. these are not the best questions to ask to understand the current political mood..

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      1. Coastie formerly known as 'Boats'‏ @Jeff__Charlot 3 Jul 2018
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        When I was born in 1968, the world had not yet discovered the greatest game ever. Pong. We were not better off 50 years ago.

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      1. david reeves‏ @dreeves 3 Jul 2018
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        All those things are true — though one difference might also be a big diminution in purchasing power of healthcare, housing and education.

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      1. Rakesh Bhandari‏ @postdiscipline 3 Jul 2018
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        It would be something if survey respondents somehow understood in realistic and objective terms life was worse back then but believed that people were still relatively happier, better hedonistically normalized to those conditions as Nicholas Agar would put it. Just brainstorming.

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      2. Robin Hadley Ketro‏ @RobinKetro 3 Jul 2018
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        I’d like to see the age breakdown, so many crisis right now may be baby boomers freaking out because they aren’t an 18 year old at Woodstock

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      3. Granite Geek‏ @GraniteGeek 3 Jul 2018
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        Yeah - these surveys really mean "I was more optimistic/excited/not-disillusioned about life at age 16 than I am at age 66"

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      2. James Grimmelmann‏ @grimmelm 3 Jul 2018
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        The more difficult question is whether the ex ante probability of human species-level extinction in the lifetime of people currently living was higher now or then.

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      3. Zvi S. Rosen‏ @zvisrosen 3 Jul 2018
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        Unless I'm misreading this, do you mean to imply that a human species-level extinction is plausibly more likely in the lifetime of someone living now than in 1968?

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      1. Eileen N Rafferty‏ @datagoodies 3 Jul 2018
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        Look at that he countries and consider WWII.

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      1. George.btc Peacock‏ @Peacockg 3 Jul 2018
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        And this is why we can't have nice things.

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