The last thing my father said to me before he passed was to keep people looking forward to the future.

It's easy to romanticize the past and it can seem intellectually sophisticated to despair about the future, when in fact the overwhelming evidence is that things have gotten much much better for nearly everyone on just about any objective axis you can pick.

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inigyou a day ago | parent [-]

Except they haven't.

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wseqyrku 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Tech has gotten better, but people yeah, downward spiral to the bottom of hell, sadly. Hard to be not a cynic these days.

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orand 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Good one. Refute an unsubstantiated claim with an unsubstantiated rebuttal. I'm sure we can all learn from that. /s

	▲	inigyou 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You made the claim, you substantiate it.