Dystopian comments are hot right now, but your comment really don't have basis when looking at long periods of time.

We are objectively in a better place now than ever, and that is usually true by picking a time and looking backwards 100+ years.

> Just like human rights, progress is never guaranteed.

There is a sense of optimism/hope I have in humanity, not in short term, but long term (decades later)

I hope that the pendulum swings in an optimist manner. As a vegetarian who watched earthlings documentary, I recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqwpfEcBjI&t=25s

I feel like the pendulum depends on all of us. We all gotta be hopeful and hope that other fellow beings also are like us and that gives hope I guess. We can swing the pendulum whatever side and its up to us in some aspect, so we personally need to do the best we can till the limit of our abilities

Isn't it though? To be sure it very much depends on how you measure progress, but I do firmly believe that there is a slow but inexorable push forward in terms of equality, human rights, and various other issues. Yes, there will be hiccups, but we always move forward.

(I don't comment this to imply there's not a lot of work we have to do, or that there's not seriously fucked up things going on right now; but hope - perhaps, even, a bit of faith - is important.)