i’m talking about the mundane stuff, like how we still carry around a bunch of plastic cards or wait for water to boil in a kettle instead of instantly. or maybe just our collective obsession with short form video? keen to hear what makes you shake your head thinking about the future.
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The mainstreaming of anti-trans rhetoric and representation.
We’re far from perfect when it comes to representation & discourse now when it comes to women, gay people, and people who aren’t white, but look back 30-50 years and you can see how far we’ve come.
As an example, in Kindergarten Cop there’s a scene where a worried mother comes to see Arnie. She found some dolls in her boys room and she’s worried he’s going to end up like his gay father. Arnie laughs and reassures her that it’s okay. He uses the dolls to get close to girls so that he can look up their skirts. She’s relieved. Arnie says he’ll “keep an eye on him, just in case”.
Imagine that scene in a modern kids film. Unthinkable, right?
I think we’re kind of at that stage WRT trans people ATM. Not so much in fiction, but in public debate. I think ina few decades the slurs used against trans people by prominent figures, and the indulging of the idea that whether trans people have a right to exist is even a debate that needs to be had will be seen in the same way a modern audience would view that Kindergarten Cop scene.
Of all people, the japanese should know it at the very least.
Considering they just recently phased it out (or are in the process to).
Our apparent addiction to plastics. Especially when diseases related to microplastic poisoning will become more widespreqd.
Chemotherapy.
You mean they poisoned people in hopes that the tumors died before the person did? Wild!
targetted poisoning!
Jordan Peterson was considered a “philosopher” I will never let Millennials and older zoomers forget this one.
As an elder millennial, I clocked him pretty much immediately. One of my best friends told me about one day about a decade ago and I was like “oh nah dude he’s a total pseudo-intellectual don’t listen to him”, and thankfully he trusted me enough that my doubt swayed him to not go down that rabbit hole.
As a millennial, I don’t understand how people (of any generation) can’t see he’s a giant fraud. He just talks around the point playing ridiculous word games trying to redefine common terms to suit his interpretation.
The fact that people were so psychologically subjugated to having to work in exchange for livelihood that when the prospect came along to not need that any more they fought against it.
Do you really believe they will not work in the future?
I rather foresee Cyberpunk 2077 than Wall-E happening in the future.Depends how well you fight against the prospect.
How unscrupulous criminals were able to attain high government offices, even though it was perfectly obvious that there could hardly have been more unsuitable candidates.
And in a similar vein: how so many people in today’s democracies can be so ideologically blinded that they vote against their own interests – even though the internet makes it very easy to obtain basic information so that you don’t fall for obvious lies.
I think with the passage of time, this will seem so absurd that people will wonder how we could have been so incredibly stupid.
I am curious to see what historians will call this period. Perhaps anti-Enlightenment or the age of misinformation. However, this is of course conditional on us not overdoing it in the coming years to such an extent that the future resembles Idiocracy. That is also a possibility that is not entirely unlikely…
Alcohol consumption. It’ll likely be viewed similar to how tobacco products are viewed today.
Also, pollution. How everyone was apparently just cool with it, even though we knew better. Dealing with it won’t be optional for future generations if they want to survive, and I imagine they’ll be cursing our generation for not doing more when it’s relatively easier.
I think comparing it to tobacco might be a bit limited. Tobacco has had some stints of popularity, but the history of tobacco doesn’t even compare to the history of alcohol. There are theories that we’ve been drinking alcohol longer than we’ve been human coming from some interesting adaptations one of our pre-human ancestors developed with the ability to metabolize ethanol. It’s not a perfect theory, but it’s an interesting one.
Plenty of historical cycles too where society has pushed away alcohol and it always seems to come back. It’s interesting that prohibition was around 100 years ago and the temperance movement started about 100 years before that. Kinda feel like we’re just in one of those downturns and the next generation is going to have some serious ragers.
Maybe. I think the difference is that prohibition and the temperance movements were based on top-down authoritative control (at least as I understand it). Folks in charge forbade it, and people found ways to circumvent it–because they still wanted it. The younger generations today simply aren’t interested. It’s not being outlawed, it’s being left behind.
Add current research on top of that (and the messages young people receive based on that), and it might be in a serious decline for good. Or it could go the way of vinyl–a niche interest preserved by a dedicated community, but not mainstream. Or any number of things, who knows?
It normally goes in waves. Younger generations don’t want to do what their parents do. Parents drink? Kids will drink less or not drink at all. But when the next generation comes round, the kids are likely to drink because their parents don’t.
Temperance was led mostly by the protofeminists who wanted fewer drunk husbands beating their wives and then taken over by xenophobes and antipapists who realized that alcohol use was correlated with immigrant and catholic communities. At least at the start, it was very grassroots.
Fair enough, I didn’t know much about it. But it sounds like that was based on a moral imperative impressed on those who weren’t on board. But what’s happening today isn’t a moral suppression, which is why I think it might go differently.
That’s why I’m comparing it to tobacco use. The decline in tobacco use isn’t based on a moral thing–younger generations are simply not interested. And it looks like it’ll only continue to decline for that reason.
It’s possible that it bounces back (the alcohol industry marketeers will certainly try), but it’s not just a matter of removing an artificial barrier, it would involve convincing people to want it again.
The old expression “the solution to polution is dilution” is fucking horrifying. Bioaccumulation and environmental persistence were known well even in the 50s with mercury and things like ddt but the industrial lobbies were just real good at preventing meaningful legislation or regulations. Now we get all the downsides.
In regards to alcohol consumption, I’m glad you raised that. I’m also glad it’s going away.
I kind of follow these things a little bit, a bit of a nerd in this regard lol
I’m 51, and now I’m 10 years sober, so I have a longer view, and I have my own multiple viewpoints now that I’ve gone from a drunk to a sober dude.
I have definitely noticed a massive shift in attitudes from the younger generations now, compared to when I was young.
It seems the generation just reaching legal age now has almost no interest in alcohol whereas when I was young, drinking was almost a given. It was just what we did at every opportunity and all the socializing happened on Thursdays and Friday nights where we get mutually blasted at various locales.
And our federal government here in Canada has finally clued-in how hopeless it is to generate revenue with alcohol sales and taxation. They ran a study called the Canada Alcohol Deficit which showed that when you factor in all the social ills of alcohol consumption, we lose money on it by like billions. I can’t link it because I’m fooling around with mobile, but it’s an easy search.
But I think that attitude is across all the generations now, even the people who were hard drinkers in my group are not really interested as much. Our provincial government saw a precipitous drop of alcohol sales, and panicked and expanded sales across our province in so many ways.
So yeah I think it’s on the way out the door for good soon. People don’t want to anymore when there’s better and less destructive mood-alteration, and the government has seen the futility of booze.
Thanks for sharing. I haven’t followed it as closely, but I understand the latest research suggests that any amount of alcohol isn’t really worth it. Similar to tobacco, how it was pretty much a given for one age, my generation grew up hearing about all the negatives.
Factor on top of that young people aren’t primarily socializing in drinking spaces anymore. Between COVID shutting that down for a while, and people having less money, there’s less reason to go out and get smashed.
I personally still enjoy a drink once in a while, but it’s not something I’d terribly mind seeing disappear, especially for how destructive it can be.
also…(hopefully)…lead water pipes. like jesus fucking christ, we know the romans used lead water pipes even they knew lead was bad…and we still used lead waters ourselves
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American children being shot to death daily in schools.
Tbh it kinda feels like just another “wild west” era, but with smartphones and internet.
Blister packaging for fucking everything.
In a related vein, specifically scissors in blister packs. It’s like whoever made the decision to package scissors that way wanted to put more evil into the world.
Videos in portrait mode. So wrong in so many ways.
