Predict what the future will hate about us

[poorpete]

What are we doing or producing that people of the future would be like "how, why?"

Exclude things that many/most people already think are horrible, like electing racists.

I've heard people say, once lab-grown-meat changes the world, generations would look back in horror that we ate animals.

My thought: much of the early days of hip hop (in a historical context, as in 80s to around now) will be unlistenable in the future, due lines that are sexist or homophobic. It will be sort of like what DW Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" is today. We can acknowledge it's influence and craft, but it ain't being watched anywhere except in a university setting.

Other thought: early hip hop's glorification of violence will still be OK. People love violence in storytelling, and it's not going away anytime soon in real life so it will always be relatable.

[Tahlvin]

Reality TV. Please.

[DMDarcs]

Not letting people off of planes?

And definitely taking pictures of your meals before you eat them and posting them on social media.

[Cazmonster]

The damage to the Oceans.

[Phoebe]

The weird obsession with making manicured lawns out of grass in places where that is highly abnormal and resource inefficient.

Stiletto heels of any sort.

So much drinking soda pop. Eventually other things will supplant it and people will wonder, wtf was that about?

[bralbovsky]

One word: plastics

[Cazmonster]

"They created hardship for people that did not deserve hardship."

[poorpete]

Soda pop! Created as a fad a century ago, as if "pop rocks" was still used by everyone and is a multi-billion dollar business.

Ok, this might not go well, but I can see this:

If we solved hunger, I could see us also perfecting birth control, eradicating rape and via genetic editing make the mom and baby's survival and health assured. As in everyone who gets pregnant does so on purpose and will be 99.9% successful. And at that point, through privilege and naivete, they'll hate us for abortions.

I guess a sub-question. Through our current privilege and naivete, what things do we hate about the past that is completely understandable in the circumstances. Cannibalism?

[Ronster]

For-profit healthcare and pharmaceuticals

(Poorpete stole my thunder for the other one)

[Cazmonster]

I don't see a problem with for-profit healthcare. For-profit healthcare insurance is hot garbage.

Also - when history comes back to look at us, they are going to look at the stock market the same way we look at the Dutch tulip economy from the 1630's.

[Ronster]

The pillaging of Social Security by Congress

The foster parent/child placement process.

[Phoebe]

What happened to Merrick Garland is going to be a "sad" incident in the history textbooks, and if it leads to more such incidents, its importance will be magnified even further.

[akiva]

Golf courses in deserts.

[Zen]

[poorpete]

Borking seems tame, a groundswell off opposition that made someone be replaced in their nomination. No one has been Garland'd, not given a hearing in order to steal a nominee to your side. Reagan chose conservative/occasional swing vote Anthony Kennedy instead.

[Phoebe]

Bork got a fair and richly deserved down vote. Keep in mind even if his extreme version of originalism gets a pass, this was the guy who illegally fired the Watergate special prosecutor Cox for Nixon, and who thinks among other things that the poll tax was fine.

[Ronster]

[Ronster]

bell bottom jeans, gages, and the Ford Pinto


seriously though, the AMC Pacer was just the worst...(I secretly want to restore one)

really seriously ....genetically modifying our food supply.

[Mike]

[Ronster]