barbarians

I'm sure that type of language helps.

The barbarians weren't any different than the romans. Same thing as Americans calling groups terrorists so we can kill them.

I live in Europe, in a country that still has its problems. The truth is though it's not just us. There are less deaths from war and less poverty throughout the world in general if you actually look at the statistics. This is despite all the bad things you see in the news. The modern news and internet make people more aware of the bad in the world, when the truth is things are actually getting better overall.

You're not wrong, but that's just growing pains that every technologically capable species goes through. Like every other kind of alien, we have less than 1,000 years to figure out how to move our industry and other energy use and generation off-world before we cook ourselves.

The only thing collapsing is nations that value money more than anything. They don't fit into the current world, and certainly not in the future.

If you are so tied to the notion that your worth is based on your wealth, I'm sure you would feel despair.