Given that we’re making ourselves dumber through AI, education funding cuts, social media, and foolish propaganda AND the population is shrinking and everyone is seemingly depressed:

The most likely outcome is the world in the children’s cartoon “Thundarr the Barbarian”. People living in the collapsed ruins of the past society, belief in magic, etc.

A post-apocalyptic hellscape, essentially.

> People living in the collapsed ruins of the past society

Kind of feels like I was already born into that.