[moret1979]

And even before diving into all those verbose signs, there was a clear indication of ignoring people advancements in all fronts of life at:

> the global story of the past forty years is one of retrogression

I was raised in Brazil during the eighties. That statement by the author has no connection to our country reality. You could argue on a few aspects that things are worse, but the general trend has been of improvement. And if the graphs about quality of life around the globe are correct, this seems to be a very widespread trend on many nations.

This “we’ve gotten worse all around” and “things have never been worse” stance is also typical of Brazilian shallow intellectual elite.