Yeah, just look at how literally everything has gotten progressively and inexorably worse since the Bronze Age, where median life expectancy was 18 years of age, 90% of the world was illiterate and owned at most one complete set of clothing, women would either give birth to seven kids not counting stillbirths and see only three survive long enough to learn how to walk and talk, or else just die in childbirth and not see anything ever again, polio, measles and tuberculosis killed millions despite all the goats and witches that were sacrificed to the gods to spare us, people owned slaves, and daughters were sold into marriage at 9 years old with 50-year-old men they never met!
Oh and there was no ice cream.
Yep, we’ve been going downhill nonstop. You’re absolutely right to be so pessimistic.
Neither option will make things better.
Things will suck until we die and there’s nothing we can do about it.
I banish thee, doomer god. Self-defeatism is counterproductive. We can do something about it, it’s merely a question of will.
We won’t. We never do. Or if we do it makes more and worse problems.
People are awful and will never not be.
Yeah, just look at how literally everything has gotten progressively and inexorably worse since the Bronze Age, where median life expectancy was 18 years of age, 90% of the world was illiterate and owned at most one complete set of clothing, women would either give birth to seven kids not counting stillbirths and see only three survive long enough to learn how to walk and talk, or else just die in childbirth and not see anything ever again, polio, measles and tuberculosis killed millions despite all the goats and witches that were sacrificed to the gods to spare us, people owned slaves, and daughters were sold into marriage at 9 years old with 50-year-old men they never met!
Oh and there was no ice cream.
Yep, we’ve been going downhill nonstop. You’re absolutely right to be so pessimistic.
Yes but how much better was it before humans?
And I agree that we have created more and worse problems since we killed 95% of males after we developed agriculture.
Now we can kill the biosphere in multiple fun ways, and are the cause of at least one mass extinction so far.
Like I said, no ice cream.
I don’t have much of a sweet tooth anyway