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There is no rock bottom. Or, to be more precise, the only rock bottom there is is the complete annihilation of the human race. Things can always get worse*, and believing that you can make things better by first making them worse is christian doomerism or something like that.
I know a lot of our fellow Americans believe in this these days, but that's their very understandable frustration and existential fear speaking.
* they can also get better though. I'm not a doomer.
You're right. I meant more the point of system collapse. When we get an uprising. I think it's a bit of an unholy combination with what the Americans call Christians and the fascists.
By the way, Christianity also teaches us about the 7 good years which will be followed by 7 bad years. And vice versa. Way back then, the Israelites needed some words of encouragement. Maybe we need, too? But I'm super annoyed. Cutting investment into a brighter future and instead investing nearly every third € of taxpayer money into war is unlikely to fix society and infrastructure. We need to do better than that, because some time soon, I'd like to see some turning point and things start to improve again. For some time it looked like we were going to do something about energy and climate change. They promised to fix a few old laws about families and sexuality. Be less stingy and finally try to fix the run down parts of infrastructure. But then geopolitics happened, also Merz's hyperfocus on appeasing the lunatics. And now improving Germany in any way got demoted to some backlog item. Yet, in reality it's more important than ever.
But I'm more or less just annoyed because we're not even that bad off. We had a lot of technological advancements and the energy situation seems fixable. I bet the industry would like some cheaper energy as well. Our society isn't as broken as in other places. 84% of my neighbours don't vote for any extremists. We even started to point out a few long-term issues. I think we're still in a comfortable position to do something about it. We just need to do the right thing.