@22 this may seem naive, but i think in the 90s we weren’t in denial, we were making progress. these problems were getting better, slowly but surely, without major social ruptures.

the social peace that made that possible has ended. we are more acutely aware of problems we’ve regressed, rather than progressed on. you can take that more overt and conflictual awareness as a sort of progress too. but i think we’d basically all be better off if we cld have maintained the path of peace and progress.