I met a friend in England not long ago, and she was quite distressed about how poorly things are going there. She was particularly distressed because this wasn't only the case in England, but "the whole world"— "everything is going to shit everywhere".

I'm from "the global south" and things are going pretty well in my home country. Anecdotally, I notice a much stronger sense of optimism and less stress about basically everything.

Overall, I don't think civilization is collapsing. There's certainly big changes going on, but I think the sense of pessimism in english-speaking media is largely because "the west" or "the global north" reached an apex post-ww2/cold-war that wasn't going to last forever.

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