For sustained series of events: • Climate change • Entangling of the Internet into practically every facet of daily life, including mass surveillance • Rise of Third World powers to parity with the West • End of the "Bretton-Woods system", if we are in fact in the early stages of that occurrence • Annihilation of states one after the other in the Islamicate world, and proliferation of fundamentalist ideologies therein • Radicalization of the Western peoples into a handful of crudely-designed granfalloons and the ostracism of intelligent discussion • Likely economic collapse to which covid played the role of last straw (assuming Neoliberal plate-spinning doesn't manage to restore all the smoke and mirrors again this time) • Covid • Probably way more shit I'm not thinking of just now
For watershed events that happened in a day: • Fall of the Berlin Wall • 9/11 • Edward Snowden's leaks
Some dude named Ben Ghazi hoarded a bunch of emails or something. It lead to 10 investigations and cost taxpayers $7 million, but at least now we know politicians are incapable of learning from mistakes
Well, i guess they fall into two catagories. The good and the bad.
For the 'good' i suppose you have to include the ending of the Vietnam war. 🔹The moon landing. 🔹The fall of the Berlin wall and the ending of communism in most places. 🔹The creation of the internet. For all it's faults it's shortened the distance between family and friends considerably. 🔹The ending of apartheid in South Africa. Nelson Mandela being freed. 🔹The ending of the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. 🔹The signing of The Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland. Hundreds of lives not only saved but changed for the better as a result. 🔹Child mortality rates worldwide are the best they have ever been. 🔹Medical advances everywhere from the creation of IVF to advances in treatments for those with long-term , previously life-threatening conditions like H.I.V/AIDS for example.
For the bad ? 🔹Well. Vietnam may no longer be an issue but plenty of others have taken it's place since. 🔹World economics goes through the same cycles causing desperation for many. 🔹Politics is slow to evolve. See: List of current world leaders and some of the atrocities caused in their name. 🔹etc.
On the upside...the Moonwalk!.... On the downside...CV19, 9/11, Assanation of JFK, Jonestown, Khmer Rouge...the list goes on. I guess evil wins...."yay evil" (shakes head in disgust).....
