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Originally Posted by Trajan
I think the world is going over the deep end. Technology is advancing at the cost of the enviroment. United States is trying to assert its hegemony. China is trying to gain hegemony. The rise of extremism in Islam is making for an unsafe world. Africa has gone to ****. Basically, things are in a bad way. (not to mention things like the tsunamis or hurricaines ruining everything)
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There is absolutely nothing in the above that could not be said about any time in recorded history.
What could not be said in any point in recorded history until now however is that global life expectancy is about 67 years.
So certainly materially (and I would argue that therefore morally as the world is a holistic place) things are getting better and better.
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