I was fortunate to have a father who taught me that school wasn’t about learning and that it wouldn’t take much to turn a sold out concert venue into a death trap.
Malevolence isn’t necessary for very bad things to happen.
Again, I was lucky to have wise guidance. Better than biography is historical perspective.
I would encourage you to check out humanprogress.org and this interview with Steven Pinker: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/id1184022695?i=1000446083470
Almost everything is objectively better and safer than ever. This is bad news for the innumerable powers trying to scare us into surrendering our freedom to them.
The kidnapping scares of the 80s and 90s were fabricated as those numbers fell. Thirty years later kids aren’t allowed outside (e.g. local PA town passing a daytime curfew). Shark Attack Summer was a narrative contrary to the facts. The fear narrative always trumps facts in the media. The content providers do not want an activated people in their communities solving the very real problems that could be solved. They would rather present perpetual problems that have us voting for force of law against one another and doing nothing for each other.
Consider who most benefits from “terrorism.”