Why not both? A better world is certainly possible. It's also possible to flip 100 coins and get all heads. The question is how probable it is, and in that sense we might be fucked.
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The question is how probable it is,
The world is a big place and "better" is a very relative term.
When we talk about Americans catastrophizing over the end of the dollar menu while folks in Kenya and Bangledesh and Brazil and Indonesia experience indoor plumbing and electrification for the first time in their lives... It's very likely we'll experience both.
Quite literally the Best of Times and the Worst of Times.
FUCKED, FUCKED, FUCKED, FUCKED, OH LOOK I SAID IT NOW THE INTERNET HAS BANISHED Me forevve.....
Thank goodness they censored the word fucked here. This is a civilized place!
Right? I might've seen a curse word on the internet. Heavens, the mere thought is enough to give oneself the vapours!
Mine is stuck on the right.
What does the right hand say?
I remember feeling this way until I realized none of it actually matters and the ticking is really annoying.
A better world was possible in 1995
Both are possible.
Its because it is both. We're the rough chaff that must be burned away for the sweet green new growth.
Get off the internet and go outside.
There it is