My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory. (TikTok screencap)
June 26th 2015 was the peak for the U.S. It's been downhill from there.
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Everything that’s happened in the since around 1900 is an extreme outlier in the history of humanity. Nothing’s been normal.
I think it was always fucked. They just hid it better, and many people pretended not to see.
This was going on under the surface all this time, growing and growing, people just did not see it as a valid concern thinking "crazy people" or "stupid people" will "come around eventually". They did not expect there'd be enough of them to pull the carriage backwards.
2016 as a gen z i reamber the xanax epidemic of the time and it was bad
Was that when the mumble rapper OD'd on hot cheetos?
that was after this was more of the "look at me i do xanax cos im so sad crowd"
🎶It's get.ting bet.ter all the ti-i-ime
I have to admit. it's getting bet.ter
A little bet.ter all the time (can't get noo worse)🎶
I've seen this argument so many time... It's not going downhill, we are just getting older, we understand the problems of the world better, we are more informed, we watch the news and we start to have that nostalgia feeling that it was better before. It was not ! The world is getting better for so many metrics, sure there are issues, there always has been, it's not perfect. Sure there are localized places where it's temporarily getting worse ( the US might currently be living through a rough time, but it will pass).
Overall, it's getting better all the time. We are currently living the best time in history so far. Millions of new stuff to discover, infinite access to the cumulated knowledge of mankind. More democratic country than ever, famine is getting down overall, health is getting better too. Poverty is decreasing too.
I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything to try and make it even better, we definitely should do everything we can, there is still a lot to do to make it the best world possible. But please stop with this constant whining about the past. It was not better, you simply didn't know any better in the past, and your memory of the past is tainted because your brains actively choose to erase bad stuff and only remember good stuff (this is a real human brain unconscious behaviour, look it up).
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These kind of lib delusions are how we got here.
American defaultism.
This isn't about America. The whole world was fucking nuts in 2020. We kicked it off by burning Australia to the ground and a few months later, we had so many world disasters, COVID in the forefront, that we forgot Australia.