Self flagelation because we can't imagine any other future. "The way things are is the only way things could have ever been" - you, implicitly. So tired of fol

Self flagelation because we can't imagine any other future. "The way things are is the only way things could have ever been" - you, implicitly. So tired of folks who uncritically think "this is the best way that things could have been". Voltaire literally wrote a whole book called "Candide" which tries to call out this exact thought-cliche.