I’m just saying that no one knew what 2025 would look like in 2015, we don’t even know what 2028 will look like, and I distinctly remember the “everything is doomed” posts in 2020 not holding up by like, late 2021, so I just really wish people would consider that we all know far less about what the future will look than we think, and people should think about that before they type their “actually everything is screwed for at least the duration of our lifetimes” posts.
I’ve discussed my reasons for opposing doomerism before, but in addition to all of that, it’s also quite simply that, if you look at like, any period in history, there were forks in the road where things could have gone really well or really badly. Sometimes the bad things happened, sometimes the good things happened, but the point is that the possibility to go in either direction was always there. None of it was predestined. Moreover, the people who were living in those times might not have been right about which path they thought society would go down, even if the current world around them suggested they’d go down x path instead of y. Various points in human history could have turned out very differently, for better or worse, if small things changed in our timeline. That makes it really hard to predict the future!
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