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You're more optimistic than I am. I'm scared that the PC-Run-Amok culture is gonna morph into something even uglier than it did in the late 2010s and something awful is gonna happen. It's also gonna be hard re-thinking all the last decades again. I mean, it's all gonna change to:

2000s: 20 years ago
1990s: 30 years ago
1980s: 40 years ago
1970s: 50 years ago
1960s: 60 years ago
1950s: 70 years ago
1940s: 80 years ago
1930s: 90 years ago
1920s: 100 years ago

It's all gonna shift around and mess with our heads for the next decade.

I'm not concerned about the Covid Virus thing but lots of people have had bad experiences so I'm following whatever guidelines the authorities are laying down ( that's not to say I completely trust 'the authorities' as the idiots seem
to have been sucker punched by this thing )

The LGBTQ thing is not something I find offensive in the least
I don't have a dog in this fight and much of the terms bewilder me but if most of the world told me that liking cleavage in a sundress, long lady hair and sexy girl legs in sandals makes me a pervert I'd speak up too!
We all get turned on by what turns us on

Discussions about race in America (and elsewhere I suppose but we do have a pretty lousy scorecard here) are important
It's best to keep it civil, I've learned a lot of things and made a bunch of good friends in this manner

Superhero movies are awesome, lay off the capes!!!😬

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There is nothing wrong with gay or transgender pride. They are normal people too. And I haven’t seen anyone arguing for black supremacy, just equality and protection.

I'm hoping that society moves past this 'finding fault in everything' and 'let's over correct things to show how enlightened we are'.

Soon you won't be able to do and say anything without someone finding fault.

i'm very concerned about what the next few years could look like economically on a world-wide scale. i'm really worried that, prompted even further by reactions to this virus, we could see swings to both political fringes across multiple countries that could roll back, even demolish the systems that have cut world poverty down to minimal levels.

there still is a real possibility that we could see true world poverty banished in the next few decades, but wrong turns prompted by populist economics could reverse that. i think that's a real concern, and something that would be truly catastrophic for the world.

but in general, i'm still very much a johan norberg/stephen pinker optimist. i think we live in the best time for people we've ever seen, and if we don't collectively jump off a cliff, there's lots of reason to hope that we'll continue to improve.