Comment on euphoric recall
xenoclast@lemmy.world 6 months agoThere’s not a lot of metrics (the potential of getting better healthcare being the exception), that aren’t objectively worse globally. I’d be curious what your diary says to that…
Things that have been improving:
The reality is, most of the world by many metrics is getting better over time. There are things that threaten this (climate change and increasing authorititarianism) and it has slowed, but overall we are still generally positive trajectory wise.
When you’re riding the rollercoaster up to the top of the hill, do you think it goes up forever?
The planet is sleep walking into a global climate collapse and an global fascist era like nothing history has ever seen.
Pretending we’re not because right now some graphs are curving up because of previous momentum is pretty dangerous.
I did say that healthcare is an exception and most of the stuff you mentioned is healthcare realted
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
I mean it’s super self centered, so it comes out mostly as guilt or gratefulness or a stirring like I should be doing more for my community. Pandemic onward it kinda went into overdrive.
Like nowadays I have multiple homeless encampments within 15 minutes walking distance, which was absolutely not the case pre-pandemic.
I’ve faired alright though, hence the guilt etc