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Why Does Everything Always Feel It's Getting Worse?

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Dec 10, 2024
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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 p…

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