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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living in the US while it destroyed itself would be less of a problem if I did not have a child and plans for more. I am resourceful and resilient but that is a lot of Circumstance to drop on children.
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@selentelechia and I discussed redlines for abandoning our city, our state, and our country intra-US moves depend on factors that may change quickly. outside the US, depending on other factors: certain South American stateshttps://twitter.com/Cererean/status/1372871302609002497?s=19 …Show this thread -
in a lot of ways im not that sure it matters, tho if the US goes down we're dragging the rest of the world with us
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yeah I wasn't gonna say it but god they were so much better
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While I'm probably a decade younger than him, and have similar concerns.
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the 1990s truly were a golden age
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A golden age, nestled between the fall of the wall and the fall of the towers
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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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