Other than bitcoin being up a little most of the world has become more oppressed and at greater risk of or actually entered war.
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I saw a stat somewhere several years ago that claimed about 50% of humans live under authoritarian regimes. And that was before the other half decided to head in the same direction (~2019 it ramped way up, but was trending that way regardless).
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Basically, the west decided it wasn't best and stopped pursuing ideals of freedom and prosperity. Ayn Rand was the last potent defender I can think off. I can't tell you who her equals are today. We're philosophically impotent.
There are some very good thinkers out there but the market for readers has collapsed catastrophically
Most of the biggest examples I know of are quite weak in comparison. I may have blind spots, of course. I don't know everything. But it's quite telling that the person who fired me up about freedom, prosperity, western ideals, capitalism, reason, intellectualism, and philosophy died 43 years ago (before I was born) before all this technology existed. I also think you're right though. People obviously have decayed in general (as I'd expect having such weak intellectuals). It's compounding decay.
In some ways, all of this technology has made it harder for people to stand out. There's just so much garbage to sift through that the good voices stay rather small or invisible. Maybe this is a multifaceted issue as they usually are.
I think it's more nuanced than this. I read in the sovereign individual that the boomer generation had high rates of illiteracy. I think there was a stat cited in that book claiming that something like 30% of the population was considered to be incompetent.
Do you have evidence to support this? Because last I checked literacy and readership is at an all time high relative to human history. Not saying that you are wrong but I think that humans tends to overestimate how bad things are.
Our freedom wasn’t abandoned,
it was traded, piece by piece, swapped for comfort,
convenience, and the illusion of safety🔎😵💫
😬
our prosperity didn’t die, it just stopped being the priority once (People in power) control became easier
than courage (the masses becoming less courageous)
Short:
"We didn’t lose our ideals, the West/->people in power sold them,
quietly, one compromise at a time, ... 👀❗️" 😟
Yeah after covid it's been downhill. But you could also argue it was after 9/11 or after the fed was established or after mk ultra or nixon putting drugs in black communities.
I feel like this is the same sentiment from 2 years ago when russia ukraine war started and all the world war 3 fud