I honestly do not understand how anybody alive can still buy into this. I mean it was never true but in like the 90s and early 2000s this “well it’s not perfect but it’s the best we got” mindset does make sense for a large segment of the population, as the earlier dunk tank post demonstrated. Even in the early 2010s, once we were a couple years out from 2008, during that whole party till the end of the world zeitgeist, this wasn’t completely delusional for significant numbers. At this point though this is just sad to read. That there are people still clinging to this in spite of all evidence to the contrary.
it's evident to anyone who's paying attention that the West - economically, culturally, in terms of global power - is in decline and rapidly deteriorating
I honestly do not understand how anybody alive can still buy into this. I mean it was never true but in like the 90s and early 2000s this “well it’s not perfect but it’s the best we got” mindset does make sense for a large segment of the population, as the earlier dunk tank post demonstrated. Even in the early 2010s, once we were a couple years out from 2008, during that whole party till the end of the world zeitgeist, this wasn’t completely delusional for significant numbers. At this point though this is just sad to read. That there are people still clinging to this in spite of all evidence to the contrary.
it's evident to anyone who's paying attention that the West - economically, culturally, in terms of global power - is in decline and rapidly deteriorating