Tired of Doomscrolling?

Being a human in the 21st century often feels  frustrating. We are clearly at the high point  

of our species – never have so many of us lived so well, been so healthy and well off. At the same time life is  

incredibly hard – more than 15 thousand children  died yesterday, 700 million people live in extreme  

poverty, even within rich societies there is loads  of unfairness and daily struggle. We are divided,  

unable to solve our problems while creating  new ones, destroying our world in the process.

In many ways the vibe is that we live  in dark times. It is so easy to feel  

disconnected and powerless in the face of  problems too big to solve. And so the state  

of the world fills many of us with doom,  hopelessness and sadness. We feel it too.  

It is one of the most pervasive stories of  our time and there is a lot of truth to it.

But as Terry Pratchett said, we are the  storytelling ape, we think in narratives  

and live in a network of stories that make up  our world. So without minimising the darkness,