And this is one of the main points. It isn't that we're being unthankful for what we have, because it is still largely better than lots of other places in the world, it's that things are declining at a frightening rate but the news and a bunch of people in my personal life are acting like there's nothing going on.

If the news said, "Oh by the way, half the 3rd world is moving in, and everything by comparison to the past is going to be horrible going forward, that would be one thing. But they aren't doing that. They're gaslighting.