It is easy to think that the world in 2026 isn’t good. A breaking down of an old order. Democracy. War. Populism. Looking at 2026 is like watching a world breaking down.

Since the end of the two World Wars when survival overtook living. The West was so vulnerable and feared another war that agreements & institutions were set up to create stability & peace. If you were born into this time you naturally thought that this was the norm.
But in fact it is a blip.

History tells us that mostly ordinary people were ruled over by Dictators and Despots. Life was dangerous and unfair. The population was powerless and enslaved to create profit for the few. Over the centuries this was the norm. So from the elevated view from the blip we are losing: yet this has always been the way.

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