A lot of people are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate, free meals for public school students, a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read.
the really great thing about being smart and self aware is that instead of falling into common traps and patterns normies fall into you invent entirely new ways of being mentally ill that are way harder to identify and fix