I doubt this will get published anywhere, so I can leak it here as long as I'm not too specific...
Basically? CP2077 is apparently one of the better possible outcomes of the modern era.
So, uh, yay. Good job humanity. Real good job.
I need to go weep for that tiny spark of hope for humanity I didn't know I had.
I can definitely sympathize with this, but I'll also add that we overthrew the Egyptian Empire, burned the Library of Alexandria, let the Pax Romana disintegrate into corruption, impoverished nations by abusing the banking systems created during the Renaissance in Europe, wiped out indigenous cultures by the thousands in pursuit of profit, carpet bombed the vast majority of the old world into rubble during WWII, heinously polluted the planet's atmosphere...
then discovered gravitational waves and the truth of space-time.
The future not working out the way we envsion is often disturbing, but time has this funny way of just rolling along, regardless. I think it's disappointing that humanity continues to make the same mistakes over and over again, but truly, we've got this knack for rolling with it.