Well said.
The way I see it, virtually every poor decision they’ve made in the past half-century has been, for all intents and purposes, anchored on the assumption that they were right and the world was buggered sooner rather than later (among other things).
To do anything less would be to display a lack of faith, but more importantly, it would be acknowledging that they have, in fact, been wrong.
That is something they simply cannot do (except in only the most passive-aggressive manner possible) for all kinds of reasons…
…but…
…the longer they keep being wrong whilst basing major decisions on the flawed assumption that they’re actually right, the more those poor decisions cannot help but compound in interest…
…and here we are watching the present shitshow.