Is The World Going Through Hell? | Marks Of The Good Life

<p>“It’s tough to be alive now,” the actor Timothée Chalamet <a href="https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1565691664416530435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1565691664416530435%7Ctwgr%5E601e89df19c4568014ca9ab3cb1cf5ad33eb615d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecut.com%2F2022%2F09%2Ftimothee-chalamet-societal-collapse-venice.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">recently said</a>. “I think societal collapse is in the air — it smells like it.”</p><p>It’s one of those lines that got picked up by dozens of media outlets. <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/ryan6?_pos=1&amp;_sid=ce3dfd59f&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Because those outlets know it’s one of those headlines people can’t resist clicking on</a>. As the economist Deirdre McCloskey once put it, “For reasons I have never understood, people like to hear that the world is going to hell.”</p><p>✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at <a href="https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://store.dailystoic.com/</a></p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TikTok</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a>&nbsp;</p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.