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That's me, with a degree in history, and a lifetime of watching it play out. My anxiety level has never been this high. This is not normal life, and we are absolutely careening towards disaster, and NOBODY at the top has the slightest idea how to drive this car. I don't think some of them are even smart enough to know what a car is, or how it works.
I know where this all leads to. I know how many people have said "It will never happen in my beautiful country." Every German said that in 1939. In 5 years, entire cities were bombed to rubble, and millions of their fellow citizens were dead.
In 1984, Sarajevo hosted the Olympics, and showed their beautiful modern city and nation to the world. In 1992, less that 10 years later, they were under siege in the Bosnian War:
The Huns used to come to a beautiful city, and kill literally every single person. One day, the people are enjoying their lives, and the next day, every single one of them is dead.
The horrors of war happen to normal cities all the time, throughout history. Too many people on both sides don't understand how easily it can happen to them. Nobody is immune.
I would also call to mind the slow decay of the Western Roman Empire, where many of the elites just thought the death throes to be another crisis that would pass, because they never expected that the empire could even end.
Just because something has stood for a long time, that doesn't mean it can't come crumbling down. Whether slowly or quickly, whether quietly or violently, the world will change, and there is no telling whether the structures we took for granted will endure, or whether whatever change may come will be for the better. We can only guess, and my guesses aren't particularly optimistic.
I wish we weren't like this
The worst part is, we don’t have to be, all this is purely design choices