The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doomed to become an open-air museum. Sure, it's possible that things have to get worse before they get better, but believing that "it's over" is just loser talk. It's never over, but the old world also won't recover by itself...
Negative bias. We notice these anomalies more than we notice the ones that don’t disappoint their mothers.
Nobody even knows who Arthur David Olsen is.