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Part of it is certainly due to bullshit like affirmative action, but I think our circles often underestimate the seriousness of the general civilizational decay we’re rapidly going through. We’re going through opposite of a Renaissance. Part of it is by design for sure, but some of it also seems natural. People have nothing to believe in anymore because everything on Earth has been undermined and trashed and so they believe in nothing. They think their choices don’t matter, so they don’t try. And when enough people are mired in this it crushes optimists into being just another drudge.

I know that Cyberpunk 2077 has rendered the cyberpunk genre kind of “cringe” lately, but unless the overall trend since WW2 reverses, cyberpunk dystopia is legitimately where we’re headed. Kids born in the next ten years are going to come of age when they need to be willing to get a brain chip and pull the fucking trigger in the same night if they want 2,000 calories.