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I wish I could believe we would end up better. But look at everything that's happened since WW1. Another two hundred odd years and we are bound to be truly fucked. Or maybe that's what everyone living through crisis feels. maybe we just had it good for a couple of decades and now we are going back to plague and war and that again.

The decline has been steady and lately, 25 years, the speed at which it moves has accelerated. There's no doubt.