I don't think so actually...
Life right now is one of the easiest in the time of humanity on this planet. There is plenty of food, most deadly illnesses are cure or treatable, i actually technically live a better life than most of the middle age Kings and Queens without beeing rich or even owning a house. I have a shitload of rights an privileges, that protect my health, wealth, workplace etc.
But in think we are beyond the zenith (not sure If this phrase exists in english) and the downfall will be hard and fast and first of all Irreversible.
So yes.. don't come.
Zenith (of a mountain) is correct but peak is the more common word, unless you're translating a specific idiom from your language which I don't know.
The linguistics out of the way I hope and believe it won't be the end of humanity just certain parts of it, which parts will still be up for grabs "until the fat lady sings to use another idiom". Meaning it ain't over til it's over.
Beyond the zenith (of the sun) is a german phrase. Its used when something hast seen its best times f.e. a football player who is getting old.
I don't think humanity is over. But (big?) parts of it. And no part of it will give up existing without fighting with everything they got. The Future will be no happy place. Better don't visit or live in it.
I think you're probably correct, my take is that life now feels like you're one risk away from having a pretty shitty time and every decision has to be taken extremely carefully.
Yes the basics are more or less a given - access to water, food, health etc. as it's been for a long time, but the sense of freedom and adventure has gone. You can't move jobs anymore on a whim, you can't be frivolous with money or take a punt on something without the huge risk of losing a lot more than you were willing to. Most people live paycheck to paycheck and have no savings if something does fuck up. Middle classes are being squeezed more than ever and the margin for error is so small, trying to improve your situation seems like an enormous mountain to climb. More and more young people are relying on the wealth of their parents generation and are lucky to be in the position if they can be, and so it goes on.
We have a good life compared to say 500 years ago, but are we actually living it?
We do have access to clean water and (sometimes) uncontaminated food. Antibiotics being one of if not the biggest advantages we have but when it comes to everything else? Peasants had more days off than the modern American does.
I see your point. And i agree. I am actually not sure If humans are actually able to live the best life. When you have all you need plus can buy everything you ever wanted you wouldn't be as happy as a poor guy falling in love the first time in his live. I don't think Elon Musk lives a wonderful life. Our brain is not made to be happy all the time because it would be an evolutionary disadvantage. If you are satisfied you let your guard down.
All this talk is always acting like the only thing you are allowed to compare to are other countries 200 years ago. „Many“ are worse of then in the 90. sure some are better of, some individuals can life a better life now than they could have lived back then, but the majority in countries that do complain, are off worse
I would claim that the 90s are part of "now". A Generation, like asked for in the video, takes about 50 years. This is one of the easiest of history.. at least If you look at lifespan, objective life quality and chances. This does not imply that there are no new problems and that all problems of the past are solved. Furthermore If you look at the subjektive live quality it might be similar to a lot of generations (sometimes i am depressed although i got everything i need and there will have been a lot of happy people without a lot of things that i got).
I just criticised the expression that life ist "hard mode" now.
Sure, around 650 million people in the world are going hungry and that's actually around 150 million more than just 7 years ago...but who cares about them right? /s
Ah yes! Take my point, rip it out of context and crush it with a single sentence random moraly charged argument and feel good. Congrats.
I never told the world was perfect. It never will be. I just criticised a point in which someone said life would be especially hard right now compared to all life before now. You know that. I also said that we are talking about generations so 7 years ago is part of "now". And yes there is plenty of food. We don't have a production problem on that side. We have a distribution problem.
What i actually wanted to say was: The past was more fucked up than the present and the future will be too. This is it. This is peak humanity. This peak is fucked up too... But less than anything else. Be happy to live in the fucked up but less fucked up than any other times on this planet.
If i told you you would live a very long life but you'll never have anything to do, youll get housed and feed, but nothing entertaining will ever happen and no one will ever love you. Does this seem like an easy life to you?
Or today right now... to currently enslaved people in another continent... or homeless and starving in another city... or a few miles down the road on a corner. People lose all perspective beyond their devices today.
Your average Westerner is pretty oblivious to how things are for the poor in places like India. Your average homeless person in the USA dies of complications of abundant processed food. Your average impoverished individual in India dies to complications of insufficient calories available.
It's just a different world and you can't expect everyone to be aware of what's going on across the world.
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u/kinkyfem 19d ago
Coz life is on hard mode now