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Why historical progress statistics do not match lived experience

I read somewhere that we are living in the most peaceful time in human history but it does not feel peaceful and I cannot reconcile statistics with what I see and feel.

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Abstract measures of social improvement can conflict with embodied experience of present-moment stress, creating disconnection from both data and direct perception.

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