https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts

Utopian absolutist thinking. The world isn't 100% absolutely perfect therefore everything is a terrible failure. No shades of grey.

Steven pinker has shown a ton of data about this. The world is much better off than ever before

And currently, we have less poverty, less hunger, less suffering than ever before

less suffering? Hmm, kind of depends on how you define that...

Fuck off Jordan peterson

A cop made a bad call once when someone wouldn't comply with instructions and a black man got shot. All cops are evil racists.
One man out of 100,000 commits rape. All men are rapists.
There's a perfect flawless utopia with no suffering or deprivation just over the horizon and if you don get in line with my ideology you're personally preventing that utopia from coming about.

I don't understand. How can you have a utopia without things like hate and suffering. Hate is Love, Love is Hate. And there is no joy without suffering.

That's why the utopia is always kind of nebulous. They want each person to imagine their own version which is perfect to them. If they make the utopia a concrete thing then it wouldn't be utopia to all people.

Even to the person imagining it, after a time.

Anyone trying to sell you utopia is a fool or a liar. Any world inhabited by humans is going to be just as flawed as humans are.

I guess when you start and run countries that ran for hundreds of years you do a bad job

There will always be inequality, violence, hate, injustice, jealously, bias, etc. Always. Anyone who says otherwise is either an idiot or wants their boot on your neck.

Things can get better.

Things have been getting better steadily.

But things will never be perfect.

Only personal perfects

We can’t all have it good

Well we could but it won’t be perfect

Also @Timcast if you think that what we've been doing for the past 100+ years has been working really well and that it shouldn't be radically altered, welcome to conservatism.

And we’d probably all be starving

even those cant be reality,

Perfection is an inspiration, not a goal

Successful civilizations are really, really hard to build and really, really easy to destroy. Therefore anyone advocating extreme, radical divergence from what has been demonstrated to be successful should be viewed with extreme skepticism.

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https://twitter.com/NorthantsPolice/status/1044141939153661952?s=19

gotta loisence for that knife

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I'm not a conservative by any means, if something is genuinely better i'm all for it,

But "progress for the sake of progress", or in current year terms "I want to feel good helping people i consider lessers" Is not a good guidebook on improving society

Shit, I got a ton of knives. ..

not like i collect them or anything either, but...

jail

no loisence no knife

only jail

If government cant keep track of how many illegals there are in my country,

I should not be expected to keep track of how many knives are in my house

nah, i live in USA, they'll kill me when they come for my guns.

with their guns

lol then your good

Ya, not entirely sure I agree with people's idea of progress anyway.

progress is when you ALL benefit from it, not just one group

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For what time?