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I'm a slow learner/dumb. Life has to kick me again and again and again for me to learn not to do something I want to do. I chase my dreams like a mad child, and when they don't work out, I make new dreams. But, though I'm not prone to depression, I do give in to the melancholy that humanity itself is sliding into feudalism. I'll be fine. My future kids will probably be fine. Their future kids might not though. And they'll be of many. That's what brings me down, the median trendline shifts ever low and could eventually drag us all down with it.
Oh jeez, thinking about the distant future is definitely the biggest downer there currently is.
What kind of calms me down in that regard is... A lot of things can happen in a couple of generations. Some places in the world were under a completely different regime and political system just 35 years ago. And 35 years further the world was completely different.
We think we know where the world is going based on tendencies and it's not looking good, but also in reality we have no idea where it will be in 35 or 70 years. That unknown is horrifying, but also kinda gives me hope? It might be worse, but it MIGHT be better or just completely different from what we imagine... There's some comfort in that for me.