[ SECRET POST #6387 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6387 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I’m not saying that everything that’s happened the last 24 and a half years isn’t bad. I’m pointing out that those exact same things happened in every decade of the 20th century. Literally every decade. And all through the previous century and the one before that.

[(Anonymous)]

But the point isn't just that bad things happened in the last 25 years, it's that bad things happened that had very broad and concrete impacts on the world as a whole. I think most of the bad things that happened during the 1990s were not as impactful on the world as a whole.

And by contrast, you can also point to quite a few important world-historical things that happened in the late 1980s and 1990s that made the world a significantly better place in concrete ways. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Warsaw Pact, the fall of the Berlin Wall - those were good historical developments that, on the whole, made the world better and more hopeful than it had been before.

History isn't just a parade of historical things happening that are totally indistinguishable from each other. I'm not just talking about the quantity of bad things happening at any given moment in time. I'm talking about the overall trend of the world and the impact of different world-historical events.

Things - in general - do get better and worse in world history at different times.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes there were absolutely many great things in the 90s that made the world a better place. And there are things now that make the world a better place. Not much has changed, which is the point.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you think that there's any such thing as change over time?

If you want to make an argument that the positive changes since 1999 outweigh the negative ones, it's obviously open to you to do so. My feeling is that, at least, it's not so obviously true that people who believe the world has gotten worse can be dismissed out of hand.

[(Anonymous)]

No, the point is that OP is wrong about it being a hopeful time without genocide or fascism. Of course things change. Some get better and some get worse and some evolve. In the 90s we were on trajectory for the world to be pretty much exactly how it is now.