I understand what you're saying. But even till we die, we'll just be on an eternal quest, on the same journey but each step we take the promised land gets farther and farther away.
We can just console ourselves with the thought that the journey is what's important, and the destination is only secondary.
We have peaked as a civilization. We have nowhere to go but down. Let things take their own natural course and ride out the storm.
We'll enter the modern dark age soon. People are mostly sheep. They will submit. They will just be too happy to be branded and IDed. Look at your friends and family and neighbors. See what I mean?
You're only seeing one side of it. The yin but not the yang. Yes the masses are stupid now. People on the whole did seem to have more common sense and self-reliance 25 or 50 years ago, but that's just my perception, I was a lot dumber 25 years ago so I am just seeing that in relation to who I was then. A lot of things are a lot better now than they were before. All the power of unlimited information we have now. The ability to go online and meet 1,000's of like-minded people. Decades ago we would have to mail letters to be having this conversation between people all over the world. I could go on, there are 1,000 aspects that are better now than 50 years ago, and many others that are not as good, but as a whole I know a lot of people who ARE very aware, they just don't say much. But when things get serious enough they WILL start speaking. So resistance is never futile, but giving up is. Sink or swim. Also think of all the incredibly stupid things people did in the past century. WWI, WWII, Vietnam War, people were being drafted and killed and killing others and not even questioning it. I think we've evolved quite a lot in some ways as a culture. Definitely a net positive gain.
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