[wkat4242]

There's some positives yes but it feels like world in decline gearing up for war.

Russia and China are again extremely adversarial and autocratic, the US is tearing itself apart in political polarisation. In my own country the extreme right fascists won 24% of votes. Gay rights are ok but Trans people are being demonised by the right now. As a whole it feels like the LGBTQ+ community is under attack. Big corporations are getting ever more powerful.

The internet is decidedly less free and very enshittified and we get tracked and surveilled wherever we go, online or not.

And no it won't be an extinction event but it will be heavy for the marginal people everywhere, leading to even more differences between rich and poor and even more pressure to equalise this by war.

And in the 90s we had much better social welfare safety nets here. Three decades of neoliberal government hollowed out anything good here in Holland. The rage of the disadvantaged by this are what's fueling this swing to fascism, they take advantage of this anger and redirect it to worse.