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I really feel like the world's changed.
The last 20-30 has seen everything flip on it's head it's so weird.
Everything seemed more freeing and liberating, more open . But now everything's gone to shit. Don't even care if I sound like a boomer anymore. World is actually fucked up.
I'm saying from the 70's to the 80's things got less sexist, less conservative, more liberating, more free speech. Same thing happened from the 80's to the 90's. Possibly same from 90's to 00's (or maybe largely the same). Then 00's to 10's the trend reversed, then 10's to 20's that reversal continued.
Now here we are.
What I am saying is. Whenever I talked to people about university that were older than me it seemed better in their view and mine. Everyone I talked about university after seems it got worse in their view and mine.
Same for childhood and same for 20's (2008 being an exception). I also noticed this about travelling to other countries.
Because things oscillate. There is progress in response to cruelty, then you have regression that grows to resist the change
This has happened for all of recorded of human history.
The difference now is our power. Humanity always polluted, but we never could poison the whole world. Humanity always had ethnic cleansing, but it was once dozens instead of millions. Humanity always exploited the powerless, but now the powerful have more power while the rest have even less
If we weather this storm, things will become so much better in reaction. If. Extinction is a real possibility for the first time since our genetic bottleneck... We have the ability to extinct our species in multiple ways
But if we manage to hold on, the pendulum will turn. The dawn will be brighter than the darkness, if we can hold on