What I do think is that the collapse merchants have gotten carried away.
There's an entire genre out there now about living in the worst timeline, about how fascism is inevitable and the kids are doomed. Almost all of it is created by people cosplaying the apocalypse from positions of extraordinary comfort.
They're being lazy. It's easier to predict the end of the world than to wrestle with the truth, which is that some things are scary, some things are going great, and most of it is just really complicated.
But nuance doesn't sell. Pessimism does. It sounds smarter, more sophisticated, proof that you're a clear-eyed realist. Plus, doom is dramatically satisfying in ways that incremental progress never can be. You get to use words like atrocity, crippling and conspiracy. You get to be the prophet who saw it coming, brave enough to tell hard truths while collecting your advance and planning your next speaking tour.
The Telemetry fixthenews.com/p/the-telemetr… #news #SolutionsJournalism #nuance (excellent - read or skim this whole piece)