Great question.

To really answer it, I think we would have to precisely define what do we mean by the "peak as species".

And for sure it can have many vectors, like number of people not in poverty globally, number of deaths due to violence, number, or percentage of, people globally living in relatively and reasonably free countries, technical innovations, philosophical innovations like in ethics... so many ways to look at this.

I struggle with this assessment myself.

Per many official statistics, we live in a better world now than 30 years ago.

On many, many other fronts, it feels worse to me, and getting worse.

But we have hope. Bitcoin and freedom tech.

At the end, at the root, I think there is what ideas and philosophy people have.