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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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 …eigenrobot added,
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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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I don't think the US is on a path to self destruction. The combination of rapid social progress and the aftermath of a major economic shock in 2008 has made our politics a bit nuts short-term but I think that'll mellow out again in the medium term.
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inshallah but will there be anything left by then? the institutional damage already will take a generation to repair and I don't think we've bottomed out yet
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I honestly feel like most of our institutions survived 4 years of Trump better than I thought they would? I mean they're not in great shape certainly but the machinery is all still running somehow.
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heh. im not talking about trump O.O
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Trump certainly isn't our only problem. Our politics in general have gone kind of crazy, weirdly high-stakes over things that really shouldn't be, and have kind of taken over everyday life in a lot of ways, which isn't a great sign. Still, I expect all of that will pass.
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