2012 fue el mejor año de la historia de la humanidad

Un auténtico puntapié en los sacos escrotales de todo colectivista que se precie de tal.

Esta gente necesita desesperadamente vender la idea de que las cosas están cada vez peor, la culpa es de la modernidad con todos sus excesos (especialmente el de niveles sin precedente de libertad individual) y que lo que hace falta para que todo esté pipí cucú es volver a un estadio de desarrollo premoderno, al Ancien Régime:

It may not feel like it, but 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world. That sounds like an extravagant claim, but it is borne out by evidence. Never has there been less hunger, less disease or more prosperity. The West remains in the economic doldrums, but most developing countries are charging ahead, and people are being lifted out of poverty at the fastest rate ever recorded. The death toll inflicted by war and natural disasters is also mercifully low. We are living in a golden age.

To listen to politicians is to be given the opposite impression — of a dangerous, cruel world where things are bad and getting worse. This, in a way, is the politicians’ job: to highlight problems and to try their best to offer solutions. But the great advances of mankind come about not from statesmen, but from ordinary people.