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Starting to wonder if the world is fixable. Just endless problems everywhere you look, and mostly just cringe morale-booster ads on the other side celebrating people fighting rearguard actions 🤔
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Lol ok. I’m sure people who lived during many previous crises thought the same thing... World War II, Black Death, numerous famines. What makes this fine period uniquely hard over all those?
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“But I believe in humanity’s capacity to endure and overcome.” <— cringe morale booster ad 😂 I personally don’t feel the need to reassure myself with statistics. I’m fine staying gloomy until real options emerge.
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I don’t know, I’ll know it when I see it. In the meantime, I find statistics-based optimistic cheerleading somewhere between unhelpful and a liability. I’m not a Rosling-Ridley-Pinker type.
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