Are we early? Or are we just the Remnant?
Looking out at the the current fuckshow, and back through history, I just think...
Most humans just act like middle of the food chain animals. Only the cream of the cream have ever tipped the affairs of the world forward, and only at great risk and as extreme outliers.
In peacetime the median human bumps along in peace, bought with violence in a previous cycle. When that wears off, the median human goes along with whatever their peer group requires, agnostic to purpose or values.
Never have righteous ideas or fairness ever broken free of the bounds of your neighbours' jealousy and ignorance. My lifetime has been witness to a supercycle of evil (perhaps its just the wider visibility of a constant evil that's always been there and never been recorded).
So is this really just about the passage of time??
Or do we need to continue to get fucked over until people on the edge of their tolerance start "hoisting the flag and slitting throats"?
(civil unrest always gives rise to these feelings)