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 two main problems I see are (i) china, an authoritarian hell state, becoming increasingly powerful while its main counterbalance, the united states, is doing its level best to destroy itself; and (ii) I live in the united states while it is trying to destroy itself
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I think I have convinced myself that these are real problems and not just superannuated griping about how bands were better in the 90s
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I'm 10 years older than you, so if it it were MERELY "the golden age is when you're 18" or whatever, I'd claim the 1980s but, no, the 1990s were blessed among decades - kind of thing that happens once every century or more
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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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