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A Global Mental Meltdown & Hope For The Future
For many today, the world seems like it’s in a wee bit of a mess. And well, it is. Also, we’re doing a lot better than ever before in human history. As Mark Twain is credited with saying “history doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.” We are more than likely in a time of rhyme today.
In this rather short and concise article, I’m going to look at why it is all a bit messy but why there’s every reason to have hope for humanity. The role of technology, including Artificial Intelligence and even cryptocurrency!
My lens is from that of a cultural anthropologist and from a digital anthropology stance. Anthropology tries to understand what it means to be human, which means we don’t just look at old bones and ancient societies. There are many subsets of anthropology.
Where We Are Today
Most of it is obvious and in our hyper-connected world and multiple media channels, we’re more aware, globally as a society, of the ills in the world than ever before, mostly all of us at the same time. That in itself, is new in terms of human existence.
Until recent revolutions in information technology and transportation technology, it took a while for news to travel and the world developed in longer time frames. Not so much today.
