The modern person is aware of more suffering and injustice than a person living at any other time in history. That doesn’t mean that there is more suffering. In fact, according to some measures like violence and poverty, there is less suffering and injustice in the world than ever before. But we are exposed to all of it. Every horrific murder, rape, or kidnapping is national news, along with natural disasters, political corruption, famines, civil wars, bigotry, pandemics, and so on.
