Friday, January 11, 2019

Blog Mirror: Why 2018 Was the Best Year in Human History!

What?

Yep.

An op ed from the New York Times. And one worth reading:

Why 2018 Was the Best Year in Human History!

Once again, the world’s population was living longer and living better than ever before.

People really like to imagine that they live in the worst of all possible times. But they don't. Things have been getting better and better for average people almost every year since year one. Some really worthwhile points.

None of which are going to convince most people. Even if you could transport people back in time to any era fifty or more years ago and find them stunned, for the most part, human nature being what it is, people are still going to believe things are really bad now, and they were really great then, no matter when the then was.

Heck, people are even romantic now about World War Two. . . which wasn't fun by anybody's rational measure.

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Lex Anteinternet?

This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

We hope you'll feel moved to comment as well. While we moderate every comment, so as to weed out Spam, we greatly appreciate the comments where they are offered, and hope to see more.

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