Do you think the world is not in fact worse - it’s just that know that it is worse? I mean Thirty Years War was HORRIFIC (and part of a wider religious schism that informed the English Civil Wars). Has the world always been full of bad faith actors, just the weaponry is slightly more scary…
I dunno, C.E., I’m with Gibbon that the happiest age of mankind was the era of the Good Emperors, right up until that sneaky shitbird Joaquin Phoenix made his move…
And I’m an optimist! My other main history take is that it really *can* always get worse, which means there’s hope that we can prevent that from happening
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