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Yes, but have you considered [INSERT OUTGROUP] are bad? /s
To play devil's advocate, considering that in evolutionary terms we just left the trees now, we're doing okay, honestly. I just don't know if it will be enough.
If you'd consider this broadly points at everything "ok", I'd frigging fear your "moderately bad" ๐
Moderately bad would be, for example, getting stuck in the agrarian neolithic for geological time because every significant technological advance leads to a devastating social collapse that wipes it away. If farming is already a new thing to the species, why shouldn't we struggle just to keep it going at a basic level?
I mean, technologies getting lost did happen all the time, and social progress basically didn't exist until recently. But, progress in both senses eventually came. By the 20th century there was little anyone from the paleolithic would recognise in Western life, and we adapted, with only a few health and demographic problems to show for it.
Besides my point being not totally serious, you're right. Technically. Yet big changes were always at the doorstep and could happen. I just highly doubt the current capitalism-era could ever end. There might be tiny revolts here and there, but there would be so many concurrently happening events needed it seems impossible. Also there's no viable alternative. At least none everyone sees. Anyhow, I'd say it's a bit too complex for a discussion in text-form.
Hah, I actually make a lot less sense when not in text form. I can write, reorder and edit a bunch on here. IRL my very first communication idea comes out, and it's stupid.
I know this is .ml, but I don't really expect a global revolution either. Then again, the UK never had a (successful) revolution, and their monarch is just a figurehead at this point, so I still expect change, good or bad.
Lol, I didn't mean to imply I'd be any better in spoken form ๐ Just that this is kind of a topic that would kill the scope of a comment.
And hey, the UK did have some recent changes. Don't u remember brexit? ;-)