Current Events > Do most of you think the world is getting worse?

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obv. i mean the people in it. Most of you think it is worse than during the time of ww2 , for example?

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most of the people who lived through the horrors of ww2 have passed and we are left with the spoiled coddled privileged bunch we got in charge now

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Not really, it's just easier to see the terrible people.

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Yes, but mostly due to not giving a fuck about proven environmental damage. Our descendents are gonna loathe the fuck out of us when calamity after calamity hits.

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

Yes, but mostly due to not giving a fuck about proven environmental damage. Our descendents are gonna loathe the fuck out of us when calamity after calamity hits.

yeah maybe, how much longer do you think humanity will last?

CedarPointcp posted...

yeah maybe, how much longer do you think humanity will last?

I hope millions of years, but maybe thousands. Would be nice to get to the point where we can space travel and populate other planets, but we may be wiped out before something like that is feasible.

LeperMessiahXX posted...

Not really, it's just easier to see the terrible people.

Honestly this is probably true

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Yes.

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The United States sure is.

nah it's getting better

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It's easy to think that things were better for a small while in the 2010's, but that whole time you had incidents like that Malala girl getting shot in the face by the Taliban, or Boko Haram's campaign of ransacking towns and villages, killing all the men, and selling the women into human trafficking.

The world has been swerving over an icy road at least since 9/11 - things weren't exactly peachy in the Middle East pre-9/11, but I feel like that terrorist attack really sealed the rise of groups like ISIS and Boko Haram.

The latter half of the 2010's also saw the election of several far-right leaders, like Trump and Bolsonaro. We're seeing a worldwide shift into radical conservatism, and the effects of that are mirrored in the brutality and cronyism of Bolsonaro and Trump's periods of leadership in their respective countries.

If we don't see a shift that favors the treatment of the population at large, and of the environment, instead of giving companies like Amazon multi-million dinner tax breaks and responding to protests with bad-faith agitators and the National Guard in tanks, we're all fucked beyond repair. The world has been going downhill.

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Nope. I think we're making steps in the right direction as far as being less divided.

Joker was right all along.

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Turbam posted...

Joker was right all along.

what?

The world has always been shit, information just gets around a lot more recently.

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The average person is much more selfish. People used to watch out for each other and help each other out. Now, people will stab their best friend in the back for a fifty cent raise. Infidelity is openly championed by media outlets. Couples being faithful to one another is considered old fashioned now.

Racial tension gets worse by the day. The average working person cannot stay out of the red because the cost of living is tailor made to break every person who aspires to live a comfortable, middle class life. The middle class doesnt exist anymore, except for boomers. When theyre gone, it will he poor, rich, and elite.

Probably not in the way that you mean. Now we see more horrible shit because of technology, and we come into casual conflict more because... again, technology. We weren't evolutionarily prepared for the internet.

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