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A ~~decent tyrant~~ benevolent dictatorship is probably better than most democracies.
But power seems to corrupt.
Extremism rises when the system in place is failing citizens and is corrupted. Bad living conditions are in contrast with riches of few, people stop seeing it for its glamour and lean towards seeing it as a class injustice. Tensions rise, desperation turns into blame, reason to violence. Rise of extremism is natural reaction to something. >

A breakdown of 70+ years of continuous global progress, due to a string of crises that affect every continent simultaneously, and no clear way out is a very dangerous time for our species. There have been dark periods in the past, but there generally was widespread belief that they would be resolved (either via religious dogma or via an escape from the mundane life cycle via nirvana/enlightenment). The 2020s are fertile ground for con men and doomsday cults of all varieties, even if the prior problems had begun to emerge in individual countries like the USA and Brazil in the 2010s. >


no clear way out is a very dangerous time for our species

Eh, i don't think humans are going away anytime soon, we're a tenacious lot, sure the vast majority of us will die off in the coming climate crisis and we'll be propelled back into a pre-industrial society, but unless something extreme happens like an asteroid strike or a gamma-ray burst cooks us alive i don't see us going anywhere.
In the words of George Carlin "The planet is fine, the people are fucked." >

The planet, as in the rock we live on might be fine. Fucking sucks for all the species we’re taking to the grave with us though. >


Fucking sucks for all the species we’re taking to the grave with us though.

Again, eh, this is not the first mass extinction on this planet, nor will it be the last, hundreds of species go extinct every year with or without our intervention, we just happen to be one of the ones most able to adapt to our environment. >

Small comfort for those species we’re exterminating though. I don’t think we should be quite so blasé about the Holocene Mass Extinction personally >

Well there's lots of people that aren't blasé about it, they're mostly busy being beaten to a pulp by police in climate protests or carried away and locked up because they were blocking a pipeline or a coal mine.
This, all of this, is entirely self inflicted, it is a natural consequence of our actions, if you want to try doing something about it i commend you, not a lot of people are willing to sacrifice their lives for random strangers and animals. >

Right but I’m talking about your comment being blasé, not other people. >

That's because i have already entered the "acceptance" stage of this whole circus, kinda like this guy. >

Isn’t “speed” part of the appeal of tyranny though? Being able to make whatever decision you want without consideration for the wants or needs of others?