Looking back at history it does seem we've reached a period of stagnation. But I wouldn't say we've reached our final destination yet. Either we'll have a renewal, or civilization will collapse entering us into the next cycle of history.

It's as good as over. I'm not holding my breath for some renaissance, and ​c-c-collapse is already happening all around us, except it's not cool like the zombie movies made us think it would be. Even if it was, it's a near guarantee that I die, and if I don't, I'm not living long enough to see the next era. I have no progeny through no fault of my own, so I don't even have stock in the future I'll never see. ​We're all doing our best to romanticize our future of "van life!" and "gig economy!" to avoid the reality that we're a homeless generation with no future.

Man, shit is unreal if i had to describe what it is to be part of the generation from '95-'99 is that we are the canaries in the coal mine, getting to be the first ones to get smoked on the accumulated shit decisions of our parent's generation is not fun at all, for a starter we got rised for a world that would not exist by the time the younger of the gen turned 21... In previous generations having young parents was to some extent better as it meant parents who were more aware of the current world, for me personally it meant jackshit nothing, my mom is just 22 years older than me yet her disconnect from the full scope of hellworld is atonishing, for a start she cannot even fathom the fact i've never had a gf nor got the least chance in hell of ever having one as even last week she made a stupid catty comment that i spend so much time online talking to my gf... i really see that my life experiences like having to pay a gf experience protitute just to know what a moth kiss feel like would be absolutely incomprehensible to her on the level of trying to make sense of an eldritch being of supoerposed 4^pi multidimentional nature... shit is as frustrating as it is tiresome.