Waiting for Another Prophet

Why Does Everything Always Feel It's Getting Worse?

The utopian model of human progress: time on the x-axis, and some arbitrary value on the y-axis representing human progress.

Human civilization doesn’t follow the path of eternal progress, nor of Spengler’s cyclical model. Instead, we are living through brief periods of rapid rise, followed by very long periods of seemingly eternal decline. Until a new prophet arises who can show us a new way.

Utopian leftists believe everything is always going to get better, and the past was always worse. Just look at those damned 1950s when American families could afford a home, a car, and five kids on a single salary! They must have been so oppressed, and sexually repressed.