I am inundated by spiritually weak takes this morning and being pissy about it.

Every motherfucker on /r/collapse revels in the idea of the end of the world because it absolves them from the responsibility of doing anything meaningful.

But AI X-risk / collapse of the global order / nuclear war / climate change / pandemic / ecosystem death

You absolute coward we live in the safest and healthiest and wealthiest time in the history of humanity with the most tools to solve our problems than ever before.

Ozone layer? Fucking sewn shut
Nuclear/global war? Unheard of for 80+ years
Global poverty? Plummeting
Great barrier reef? Record coral cover
CO2 emissions? Slowest growth rate since 1949
COVID? Development of a new class of vaccines faster than could be possibly imagined

Even with every global government seemingly entirely staffed by incompetent grifters and / or lunatics, the world continues on a trajectory of Move Fast -> Break Things -> Change the World -> Clean Up the Mess -> Move Fast and its fucking working!

YOU LIVE IN A GOLDEN AGE!

"Everything is so bad" from 1346 to 1352, ~100,000,000 people died from the black death, possibly 2 out 3 fucking people in Europe died from festering pustules they thought were a punishment from god.

THATS PRETTY BAD