America First is bad, mmhkay
(archive.is)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (27)
sorted by:
The prosperity is a bit of an illusion as well. What we have an abundance of is cheap consoomer products, but it's actually more difficult now to own a home in a decent neighborhood than it was in the past.
Compared to the recent past, true, but in the grand scheme of human history, this is still pretty much the best time and place to be alive, materially speaking. The problem is, people didn't evolve to live without struggle.
And that's just it. The dominant narrative has been one of "progress" even for conservatives. To experience decline from one generation to the next creates an existential crisis. Western thought has been in crisis for a long time now. Spengler wrote Decline of the West a century ago.