Are We on the Verge of Collapse?

In intellectual life, in large parts of acedemia, commenttators and pundits, there is an ideology of of decline. Goes back to he the nineteenth century, a part of the counter enlightenment that arose,. i as a reaction to enlightenment hopes for for progressin rationality. That said, the whole that societys, western civilization, is teetering on the brink, or it's circling on, circling the drain, and it's going to collapsen any time now. So you can im tatso good news or bad news is sudden. Its dramatic. Wer we're tilted towards the processing of negative information in any case.