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Sometimes it feels like the world has gotten worse. Like it's gone bad somehow.
But the world is huge and complicated, and we can't really make those judgments objectively. Subjectively it's tricky too, yet within that subjectivity it often seems like things weren't this insane or even mad before.
Whether that's true or not — everyone decides for themselves. My own hypothesis, though, is that at some point the world genuinely started getting better, but that very improvement bred weak generations (I personally blame the boomers) who got too comfortable and complacent, that in turn cause the progress to start sliding backward.
And it's going to keep sliding back for a while. Whether it hits rock bottom, total horror, and catastrophe, or whether we as a civilization snap out of it and manage to turn things around — that's what we're about to find out.
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