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>>Berisl+(OP)
I’m not a doomer, but I also kind of look at it this way. I was born in 1978 and I no longer live in the same world.

I don’t look at it as doom but just as a period of very rapid change. As the Chinese saying goes, living in interesting times is a blessing and a curse.

I don’t know what happens next, which is both interesting and scary especially when I think about my kids. They could end up living in a collapsing failed state (or worse) or in a post-scarcity technosphere or something I am not imagining.

>>api+l4
If it's any consolation, your kids won't know the Cold War and other things that happened when you grew up. It's nice to know that memories are not heritable.

I'm sure many Europeans thought WW2 was the end of everything; but the next generation had an incredible boom. It's always darkest before dawn. There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. And all that.