[shadowofneptune]

If it's any help...

It has been a lot of shit, a lot of brutality, but it is changing. It is difficult to sustain such an environment forever. Most of the mega-laws that got passed in the last few decades, if they ever were, have become unenforceable with how overloaded public services are in the... are we still calling them red states, cultural South, etc?.

You have people in Indonesia, Argentina, US, etc. all talking to each other. Where there isn't formal education, informal education can actually take a decent place. The young across the world are more like each other than anyone would really admit. People who come to the US aren't really forced to learn the language to an unrealistic degree anymore, and that's good, really. The standards have been too high for a century.

Things are so overloaded because turns out people do still need a law system, a health system. It shows a self-respect people didn't have 10 years ago. I could go on but, there is still hope.