>>40798941 (OP)gradual decline looks like what's in the cards for us if we dont pull some new economic model out of our asses
>demographic decline pattern worldwide, even beginning to manifest in developing countries>aging populations, cost creep of everything, and increasingly expensive responses to intensifying natural disasters put unsustainable strain on state budgets>fertilizer shortages and shifting agricultural zones putting pressure on food production>very deserved nationalist push back on globalization choking off the one avenue left to our delusional eternal growth economics>knock on effects of climate change dovetail with economic instability to further fuel migration, pouring gasoline on political instabilitywe'll just keep hoping some big flashy supernatural something comes to shake us out of this, its a mirror of secular society right now where even the ideologues are so pessimistic about the future and out of ideas that they cling to their safety blankets - failed defunct ideologies like communism and monarchism and fascism - because they can't imagine anything better