Unfortunately this is true.
It's known as shifting baseline syndrome and it's a cognitive bias / fallacy.
See also: Recency bias
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
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In the US, it will be blamed on Biden.
"He et a wild vegetal once. That's why their en't any remain."
Just imagining how that's going to sound.
I'm so glad I'll be dead by then. And with no kids to have to suffer through the even worse future to come.
Perhaps, but the place will be lawless and we old folks will remember who was behind the apocalypse because they were greedy pieces of shit. Money is worthless in an apocalypse, and they'll be lucky if they aren't made into stew on account of them being as equally worthless.
Happy little rainbow over the death of mankind amirite?
Okay, but consider this:
You now live in a P.O.D. album art booklet