There is so much good stuff in the Aeon piece “Why the idea that the world is in terminal decline is so dangerous” by Princeton’s Jeremy Adelman. Many of the systemic errors made by gloom-and-doomers in the past really seem to parallel what is happening today. The inability to see incremental advances. (Like the steady decline in joblessness.) Either-or thinking. (Tax cuts are the difference between a future of sunlit uplands or a thousand of years of darkness!) Being enraptured by sweeping solutions. (Scrap the tax code! Time for a universal basic income!)
From the piece: Declinisms share some traits. […]
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