It's been downhill since 2020
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I vote for 2016. The unthinkable happened.
We shot that poor damn gorilla.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
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It's get.ting bet.ter all the ti-i-imeI have to admit. it's getting bet.ter
A little bet.ter all the time (can't get noo worse)
I've seen this argument so many time... It's not going downhill, we are just getting older, we understand the problems of the world better, we are more informed, we watch the news and we start to have that nostalgia feeling that it was better before. It was not ! The world is getting better for so many metrics, sure there are issues, there always has been, it's not perfect. Sure there are localized places where it's temporarily getting worse ( the US might currently be living through a rough time, but it will pass).
Overall, it's getting better all the time. We are currently living the best time in history so far. Millions of new stuff to discover, infinite access to the cumulated knowledge of mankind. More democratic country than ever, famine is getting down overall, health is getting better too. Poverty is decreasing too.
I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything to try and make it even better, we definitely should do everything we can, there is still a lot to do to make it the best world possible. But please stop with this constant whining about the past. It was not better, you simply didn't know any better in the past, and your memory of the past is tainted because your brains actively choose to erase bad stuff and only remember good stuff (this is a real human brain unconscious behaviour, look it up).
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Was that when the mumble rapper OD'd on hot cheetos?
that was after this was more of the "look at me i do xanax cos im so sad crowd"
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)Nah 2012 when people got smartphones is when the world ended
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It's get.ting bet.ter all the ti-i-ime
I have to admit. it's getting bet.ter
A little bet.ter all the time (can't get noo worse)
I've seen this argument so many time... It's not going downhill, we are just getting older, we understand the problems of the world better, we are more informed, we watch the news and we start to have that nostalgia feeling that it was better before. It was not ! The world is getting better for so many metrics, sure there are issues, there always has been, it's not perfect. Sure there are localized places where it's temporarily getting worse ( the US might currently be living through a rough time, but it will pass).
Overall, it's getting better all the time. We are currently living the best time in history so far. Millions of new stuff to discover, infinite access to the cumulated knowledge of mankind. More democratic country than ever, famine is getting down overall, health is getting better too. Poverty is decreasing too.
I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything to try and make it even better, we definitely should do everything we can, there is still a lot to do to make it the best world possible. But please stop with this constant whining about the past. It was not better, you simply didn't know any better in the past, and your memory of the past is tainted because your brains actively choose to erase bad stuff and only remember good stuff (this is a real human brain unconscious behaviour, look it up).
We're running out of water for agriculture. The zoomers may be middle aged, and the alphas, adults, when the climate crisis fully catches up with us. And if the human species is lucky, it'll happen first in the US or Russia or one of the old-guard powers, and the new order can use their renewable energy surplus to create new desalinization technology.
But current estimates (by those few climatologists willing to say other than it's going to get very bad. ) estimate the upper limit of the sustainability projections are a global population of about a billion people, if the international community chose to act today on all fronts. (Obviously that's not happening in the US, or in autocratic regimes, who imagine -- falsely -- they can create a self-sustaining colony on Mars -- we're a century or more from that).
That is a best case scenario unless we discover some miracle technology.
All other scenarios get worse than that, from a population in the hundreds of millions to human extinction. There is a ray of hope near the bottom, since Homo Erectus had at least one period of tens of thousands of years with a population under 10K before they would populate the world again, until they were out-competed by other hominids (e.g. us. Homo Sapiens). So we might have a tiny society that survives for an eon, but don't expect any culture (from wet burritos to Beethoven's Fifth to the 道德經) to survive. And a fuckton of science will have to be rediscovered.
So seriously bad shit for all of Human society is, at this point, for all intents and purposes, inevitable.
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Check out this new song called Metallica.exe !
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)Everything that’s happened in the since around 1900 is an extreme outlier in the history of humanity. Nothing’s been normal.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)remember when redditors thought 2016 was the worst year in history because some celebrities had died?
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)The world has always been crazy. Just more adults are becoming aware of it and able to see it all the time, every day.
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remember when redditors thought 2016 was the worst year in history because some celebrities had died?
2016 also had Brexit and Trump winning at the ballot box
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remember when redditors thought 2016 was the worst year in history because some celebrities had died?
Pfft those idiots didn't have the foresight to see that things were going to get worse. What a bunch of dingalings.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)Just a reminder that traitor lunatic Trump was president in 2019. So no. Lol
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remember when redditors thought 2016 was the worst year in history because some celebrities had died?
When were u when Chuck Berrie is kill? The day rock roll die
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2016 also had Brexit and Trump winning at the ballot box
Yeah, I still feel like that year is when things really went off the rails in the US. I lost a lot of friends and family to the cult, and I'm starting to think they're never coming back. A chasm has formed in America and it's only getting wider.
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Just a reminder that traitor lunatic Trump was president in 2019. So no. Lol
....And things still weren't as crazy as they are now. To me that's points towards the guys theory LOL
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)I feel the same about 2007, and 2000.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)It’s not an alternate timeline.
It’s the most profitable one.
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The world has always been crazy. Just more adults are becoming aware of it and able to see it all the time, every day.
Rome went out drunk on wine and conquest.
We’re going out buzzed on overpriced food delivery and crypto regret.
Cheers!
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Just a reminder that traitor lunatic Trump was president in 2019. So no. Lol
It went to shit when you dumb mother fuckers elected him for the first time in 2017. Stupid fucking idiots.
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I see this said about the 90s all the time but really this is not true. In the 90s there was (not an exhaustive list)
- First Gulf War
- Yugoslavia war
- Rwandan Genocide
- Oklahoma City Bombing
- Columbine Massacre
- Los Angeles Riots
- The Fall Of USSR (while on one hand a good thing it also cause so much economic decline, hunger, and excess mortality in the millions to many former bloc countries)
- Somalian War
- US 1990 recession
- 1997 Asian Financial crisis
- Dot com bubble
- Hurricane Andrew
- 1999 İzmit earthquake
It's very common when asking any person what was the best period of time for the world for their response to be a period of time their formative years were.
The reality is history is full of horrid horrid things and nostalgia is a follie that'll trick your mind.
Yeah, it's less "stability in world events" and more so the west riding high off winning the cold war.
