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People are overwhelmingly both pessimists and special snowflakes.
Edit: add know-it-alls.
Edit: add know-it-alls.
oh yes? like how? I mean, now we have a lot more advanced medicine to reduce infant & mother mortality rate, raise life expectancy, prevent & treat a lot of diseases. We have the technology to bring clean water to more population, better access to education, more secular societies. ANything else missing?
We understand how to limit power with liberal democracy.
Hitler was democratically elected!
Is this an argument against liberal democracy?
Perhaps as a counterpoint we should say that no liberal democracy has ever gone go war against another liberal democracy.
Don't be too idealistic.
What do you think, for instance, of the US supported coup against president Allende in Chile in 1973?
Allende was a true liberal democrat. He wasn't even communist (he was supported by christian democrats)... but yet, he threatened US economical interests in South America.
I have read Socrates had a similar complaint about his society.
How exactly does one define "downhill" when referring to a society?
More information overload and existential anxiety, but also much more opportunity and arguably fewer Black Plagues. I say stuff is generally on an upward trajectory overall.
Is this an argument against liberal democracy?
I have read Socrates had a similar complaint about his society.
How exactly does one define "downhill" when referring to a society?