History is almost entirely made up of periods of chaos and struggle. We grew up in an anomalous lull. Everyone seems obsessed with the idea that times are getting worse. We even like to joke about (some aren’t joking) our timeline getting shifted and this new timeline being a far more awful version. But I think that we probably just grew up and have lived our entire lives in an extraordinarily peaceful and easy period of time. The natural order of existence is kind of shitty and destructive and hard to deal with. Constant war, fear, famine, disease, radical social...