Generally speaking, we’re stuck—if not degrading. Some small areas may be seeing progress, but overall our civilization has gained very little in recent decades.
Compare 70s, 80s, 90s. Such big jumps in progress even just visually. Cars, politics, technology.
Now check 00s, 10s, 20s. It’s all almost the same since start of 00s/end of 90s, but even worse. Internet, cars designs, no fresh political freedoms, etc.
Among the few new ideas, are you really sure you need all that AI slop in your life? Enshitification of everything, even american power?
It’s going to happen something really bad before people understand and reload.
Late stage capitalism’s core flaw is the relentless greedy pursuit of money and power, which erodes freedom. Without freedom, progress stalls; there’s no space or time to create.
Sometimes we still can make fancy things today, but most of them grew from a spirit of freedom and quality—not the corporate bloat that dominates too much.
That pursuit, that greed of capitalism, is something we need sometimes to speed things up. However, it’s also crucial to balance that with a proper understanding of human nature, society, the nature of restrictions and freedom.
And It’s always good to remember the downside of rapid advancement: pollution and entropy.
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