Why do you think our greatest art, our biggest discoveries, and our most just societies aren't still ahead of us?
Climate change? Nuclear war?
It's hard to account for my output sentiment because it's just the coalesced end product of myriad input over time which you don't record or keep around, but I feel like a sober analysis of these problems doesn't indicate looming human extinction or even "very bleak" times in the 1st world. Alarmism is useful since it's the only way to spark action, but there's bigger worries, like another, worse pandemic (but even that likely won't mean "very bleak" times, depending on your situation) or your child having some congenital issue (which can make things "very bleak" locally even if things are very good globally).
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Why do you think our greatest art, our biggest discoveries, and our most just societies aren't still ahead of us?
Climate change? Nuclear war?
It's hard to account for my output sentiment because it's just the coalesced end product of myriad input over time which you don't record or keep around, but I feel like a sober analysis of these problems doesn't indicate looming human extinction or even "very bleak" times in the 1st world. Alarmism is useful since it's the only way to spark action, but there's bigger worries, like another, worse pandemic (but even that likely won't mean "very bleak" times, depending on your situation) or your child having some congenital issue (which can make things "very bleak" locally even if things are very good globally).