> If I could choose to have children again, I wouldn't.
I agree. I feel that I've done my children a disservice by bringing them into the world as it is. I just didn't know this is how things would go.
I agree. I feel that I've done my children a disservice by bringing them into the world as it is. I just didn't know this is how things would go.
Billy Joel's 1989 song 'We didn't start the fire' addresses the idea that the past wasn't always better than the present.
The world my children are inheriting is a substantially worse one that the world I inherited.
I saw the handwriting on the wall 30 years ago, but couldn't say what form it would take. I knew that prices of things would go up, wages and employment would decline, and misery would increase over time.
I think there may be some very large scale (conventional, hopefully) wars and billions of people migrating as climate refugees within the next 5-25 years. Imagine Gaza but it's entirely possible Putin will not be stopped and the MAGA movement leaders will emulate Bibi and Putin in terms of war-making. It's also probable that even more brutal, repressive, and self-destructive future leaders in the spirit of Nero and Caligula will emerge.
None of this is set in stone. Fate doesn't exist. Nothing bad has to happen. We can choose to reorganize and change attitudes if we are willing to be steadfast with solidarity.