It's never going to be perfect. It's hard to tell, but this is the best humanity has ever had it. So obviously something has worked out. We can do better, but that doesn't mean no good has happened.

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Yeah that was a quip more than anything… should include a meme of post bomb Hiroshima with a ‘why did I have that last whisky’ comment.
Still, my point would be the same. People pretend like life was a fairytale when the reality is that far more people suffered many more horrors than now. Natural and unnatural. People lose sight of the progress that has been made because of the bad that still exists.