>>11773794>It won't get better until political issues are resolvedRather SOCIAL and DEMOGRAFIC PROBLEMS than just a "political issues".
However, somewhere in western Europe at the end of the Middle Ages, a different approach to improvement than in earlier historical periods began to emerge. Things were improving NOT JUSTto survive, but to improve, to check. Change for change's sake, not out of necessity. This new way of thinking developed slowly to explode with full force in the 19th century. Eccentrics, inventors, madmen discovering something became "pop stars". Thinking and discovering became fashionable. It lasted somewhere until the middle of the 20th century and became commonplace.
In my opinion, nowadays invention is not fashionable, but only desirable to satisfy consumers, which means that we partly return to thinking from before this revolution, but on a different level. We expect that there will be inventions, but the people who design them are not famous, and these are just another anonymous work, which we do not admire but demand.
Admittedly, there are universities, pop-culture productions promoting slogans: "all the way forward", "don't give up", "it's all up to you", "you make your way", but how many people listen to them? There is no such a push for these slogans anymore and I am afraid that we are entering another period of stagnation, but at a higher level of development, which in turn is more difficult to maintain in the case of the REALLY HUGE CATASTROPHE as : an eruption of some volcanic caldera / super volcano, hitting some giant rock straight from space, a deadly epidemic on a global scale (not like the overrated "Covid-19/Coronavirus"), but on a similar scale to the famous Black Death from medieval Europe resulting in the deaths of 30% to 60% of Europe's population.
What will we do if REALLY HUGE CATASTROPHE and WORLD-WIDE catastrophe will happened ?
