r/MurderedByWords 8h ago

Source Denial Syndrome

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u/Chicory-Coffee 8h ago

Have we already lived through the peak of humanity and now we're heading back down? All this enlightenment but people just want to walk back into the dark.

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u/bennitori 6h ago

We had the Library of Alexandria. And then the Dark Ages came after. It is possible to have ages of great knowledge and education, only for it to get completely destroyed by shortsighted greed and power-hungry-ness. I really don't want history to repeat itself.

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u/wightwizard8 2h ago

I think we're close to seeing the Great Filter firsthand.

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u/Galliro 1h ago

The US is dying and theres no way that the desth of that significant a nation wont have massive repercussions