Does anyone here hold a positive view on the way society is headed in the very long term?
By very long term I mean in the range of 40,60-90 years? I ask this with a bias to western society, but I am talking about the world as a whole. The influence of the US is in terminal decline, and like Rome before it, the only reason it hasn't collapsed already is because of last minute panic borrowing which is only buying a few decades of time.
I also mean socially, not just economically. Marriages are failing, families are broken and depression is at unbelievable levels, what kind of world would we live in if the 30-50 million on prescription meds in the US alone had them withdrawn? Of course in Europe the situation is very similar, although pharma companies don't have quite the same influence here as they do over the pond. Given it's extremely unpopular foreign policy, many might champion the fall of American influence in the world, I also hold disdain for it, but would a totalitarian china be any better? That is under the foolish assumption that china itself would survive were the US to collapse.
Things continue to deteriorate, not too rapidly for too many to notice, but deteriorate nonetheless. Job security, community cohesion, wages, quality of life for the majority all continue to gradually decline.
So does anyone here hold a positive view of the long term future? If so, why would you given these trend to the contrary?
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