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Have you ever seen a chicken hatch? It's a messy and destructive process. Before that first peck, the chick inside the egg is all but invulnerable. As soon as it makes that first crack though, all bets are off. The shell can cut the chick killing it, it can drown in the remaining embryonic fluid in the egg if it can't get out in time, and it is immediately set upon by hordes of bacteria and viruses that couldn't get to it. However, as long as everything goes somewhat normally, 5 minutes late you have a cute fluffy chick.
Humanity takes a bit longer to develop societally because so many bad habits have inertia. Your generation kept the ball rolling, and specifically set up the necessary destruction needed to get society to the point that you were at 55 years ago. The process started in the mid 1800s, and should finish, in the next couple to few decades, with either all of us dead, or whoever's left uniting under a single banner of equality and prosperity for all.
History. It’s a messy and destructive process. Let me dilute this: Unfortunately, we haven’t learned from WWI, or WWII. Our grandfathers fought and died against fascism, and Hitler. And here we are—again. AGAIN. There are children starving, dying, and suffering in Gaza. We have lost our humanity.