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I miss when I was young and naive and thought the world was basically good. I feel like in today's world I have to protect my nieces and nephews, and future children from what the world really is, which is just sad.
The only solace I get occasionally is focusing on looking at the stars, and what's out in space, and the vastness of it all, reminding me every once in a while that what happens on our little slice of the universe isn't all there is.
The world was basically good because serious people created institutions to make the world good after the world almost destroyed itself with pointless war for two generations in a row. Unfortunately it seems we are more regressing to the mean of the world being shitty again.
And starling is polluting the night sky with millions of satellites.
Enjoy stargazing while you still can. We likely only have a few years left.
Since when? We had the Vietnam war, Korean war, Dessert storm, countless interventions in the middle east. And don't even get me started on what's going on in Syria. World wars are flashy. But, we never stopped waging war after that. You sound like a bobble headed naive optimist telling me how great the world used to be after WW2.
The whole World is never great. Parts of it have had great times even when other parts suffer. From a North American viewpoint, their world has been more often good or great in the last century.
The vast majority of everyone wants what’s best for everyone else. We just all have really shitty information about each other.
We're also dictated by a global system that indoctrinates us in a zero sum competitive and antagonistic mindset, which rewards you every step of the way for succumbing to it like feeding you little pellets like a pigeon.
World is basically good, there is a couple of bad apples that abusing good will of the rest of humanity.
Most people are basically good… to the people that matter personally to them. Unless they're like Vash the Stampede, a typical person's umbrella of empathy includes only friends and family they regularly see, not humanity in general.
Covid proved otherwise for me. There's also countless wars, and dictators throughout history who have proven counter to your point. Just bcz some people are nice doesn't mean the world is basically good.