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I feel like our whole lives here in the US we've been told to expect things to just generally keep getting better, seemingly forever. Like, that's the narrative of "progress." The economy just keeps growing, the nation just keeps getting richer, technology just keeps getting better, living standards just keep getting better, so forth and so on. But, that was probably never realistic, or even feasible. I mean, no civilization progresses forever. Essentially every civilization that's ever existed has followed a pattern of ascension followed by decline. Many of the most notable civilizations ascended very quickly and dramatically, and then collapsed just as quickly and dramatically. Why should we expect to be any different? What makes us think we won't follow the same pattern as basically every other civilization in history?
It would've continued if we'd left competent people in charge instead of handing the keys over to the absolute WORST people in the world. Now we're about to lose:
...all thanks to the shittiest people you've ever met, and all because enough people got convinced that we SHOULDN'T murder them before their cancerous bullshit metastasized into society.
Humanity would be doing GREAT if not for the humans.
Except it's the "competent" people who paved the way for this mess. You don't get a Trump without generations of Bidens, Obamas and Reagans. The rot that led to MAGA isn't something that could've just not happened; it needed to be actively avoided years if not decades in advance. Besides, things were getting worse even before Trump so what?
nah. it's Marketing
Every individual civilization has followed that pattern with a few exceptions. Overall, however the previous view is correct historically speaking. As a species things do just keep getting better for us, except in periods of systemic transition.
Meanwhile, my whole life, things have either gotten worse or stagnated.
Change is the only constant. One chapter ends, another begins.
Have you ever considered that trans people are the reason that we don't keep progressing forever? /s