Originally Posted By: Astro14
Originally Posted By: SkyActivG
I'd like to see some perspectives on this topic. We went though a war, then a financial crisis, and now we face a global conflict with China and possibly Russia(Some say Russia is more dangerous), because of tense relations and geopolitical hurdles. There are also other facets of problems, such as incurable diseases (Alzheimer's,HIV/AIDS) that hinder society. These diseases have been around for too long.
Wonder what folks were saying in 1938?
The war they had been through was far more devastating, the financial crisis larger, the pandemics had killed more and the global conflict was already happening in Asia and Europe...
Exactly.
Our progress has been interrupted and set back recently, and we have profound challenges -- many of them existential -- that we could never have imagined in times past. But the general trend over the past several decades, centuries, and millennia is strongly and safely upward. As long as people more or less stay on their game, that trend should continue.