Anatole Kaletsky on the trivial upheavals of modern times

"Never in human history has life been more predictable, safe and stable - at least for that large minority of the human race who live in the advanced capitalist countries of Western Europe, North America and East Asia", writes the economist and journalist Anatole Kaletsky. "Compared with the upheavals of the early 20th century, the challenges we face today - whether as families and individuals or as societies and nations - are almost laughably trivial. Have psychologists who tell us that accident witnesses need grief counselling forgotten about Holocaust survivors and PoWs in Burma ? ... Can politicians honestly speak of terrorism today in the same breath as the threat from Communists and Nazis to previous generations ? Anyone who makes such comparisons is insulting our intelligence, as well as our courageous forebears."

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