trying to disentangle how much of my profound pessimism about society stems from actual trends and likely outcomes vs how much from just being older and seeing things I grew fond of in my youth disappearing
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The 1990s was an age of undiluted, unironic optimism, the end of history, both politically and technologically. Those both ended with 9/11 and the dot com crash. Some people see the contours a new age of optimism with the vaccines, SpaceX etc
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