Most people prefer mainstream news outlets, which dutifully report everything that's going wrong in the world, especially if it can be blamed on the other side. So again, if things seem gloomy or depressing, there are what they call seven laws of why things are the way they are. Here they are. Number one. The law of the invisibility of good news. Progress happens gradually and imperceptibly, while regress happens all at once, and immediately it grabs our attention