I can already hear it. I know, I know, doomerism has been weaponized in order to keep the working class undereducated, depressed, drugged up, inert, or dead, and I’m falling for bourgeois tactics.
At the same time, though, I look around (even from a privileged, western perspective) and see things getting worse and worse, daily. My life and country have both begun to collapse.
I’m pretty white-pilled when it comes to the human race on the whole, especially with China as the rising superpower, but Jesus. Global economy in shambles, political and civil unrest, and the worst existential threat in human history in climate change all at the same time.
What are the next 20 years going to bring?
I’m scared, and I have a really bad feeling about all of this.
The thing that gives me hope is education. Each generation is more critically thinking than the previous.
Try talking to old people about politics. They just repeat things they’ve been told. Their opinions are not their own. Younger people are less manipulable and more critical. This is a direct result IMO of developments in the science of schooling over the past 200 years.
It is becoming more difficult to pacify a population (even with ever more sophisticated media and weapons) in a way that is difficult to reverse.