> and people who dig up these funny examples of people bemoaning imminent decline from thousands of years ago don't usually bring up this part or the dark ages

> and people who dig up these funny examples of people bemoaning imminent decline from thousands of years ago don't usually bring up this part or the dark ages that followed. Because of confirmation bias. When doomsday prophets are wrong, they're rarely remembered. When doomsday prophets are right, was it because they had insight that others lacked or was it simple chance?