Sweden today is a typical progressive society where a lot of trends are manifested in advance and most of the time they are bad trends. Every now and then it also means some good news.
For example, a survey on pornography among high school students, conducted jointly by researchers from three Swedish universities, which compares the situation 20 years ago and today. What has changed? For one thing, almost everyone consumes it. But on the other hand, it is also losing relevance. It has much less influence on behaviour than in the previous generation. It generates less excitement and less often replaces sex. And the gender gap is shrinking.
It’s actually normal. A trend comes along, it looks disastrous, and then society learns to deal with it. It’s just that from time to time something comes along that they don’t learn to deal with and it causes a disaster.
Which leads to two thought errors. To ignore (or even encourage) all worrying trends or to constantly panic. Both are equally blinding. We need the ability to discriminate.