1) You can certainly improve certain specific things about the world, and that's a useful thing to do. The problem is that people think the world's going to turn into Utopia, and it's not -- it's always going to be a place of mingled joy and suffering, success and failure, beauty and sickening ugliness. (And your efforts to make it better will be balanced by the efforts of others to make it worse.)
2) Of course I've thought of it, and the related ancient Greek sequence of ages found in Hesiod. I discussed some of it here:
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Re: Like a moth to a flame
Date: 2024-03-18 02:26 pm (UTC)2) Of course I've thought of it, and the related ancient Greek sequence of ages found in Hesiod. I discussed some of it here:
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-reign-of-quantity/
There are many different ways of thinking of that complex, textured reality we call "time," and each of them have something useful to add.