Spencer Corson

Michael, thank you so much for having me.

A true pleasure to be here.

I think it's I think it's a two fold outlook.

One is that if you could be born at any time in the history of mankind right now is the absolute best time to be alive.

We have never been safer.

Medical advancements have never been greater.

Life expectancy has never been higher.

Crime rate has never been lower.

Food has never been more plentiful.

And the quality of life that one can expect to live right now is far superior to at any other time in our history.

Now, when it comes to our physical safety, our actual sense of safety, we sometimes feel

feel that the world is a more dangerous place than it ever was before.

And in certain instances that may be true.

The incidences of, let's say, mass violence are now higher than they have ever been in our history.

But also when it comes to, say, things like car crashes or child abduction or sexual assault, those things were always going on.

It's just that there wasn't this pervasive promotion of those horrific acts in news stories or the media or what have you.

When we see these things on social media, they're happening to other people.

So our anxiety about our risk of those things has a tendency to go up.

Audit yourself with honesty.

Just really, all most of us, most people will never be in a plane crash or a terror concern or an active shooter situation or a kidnap for ransom exploit.