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Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby poorpete » Sat Jan 28, 2017 2:53 pm

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.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Tahlvin » Sat Jan 28, 2017 5:54 pm

Reality TV. Please.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby DMDarcs » Sat Jan 28, 2017 6:18 pm

Not letting people off of planes?

And definitely taking pictures of your meals before you eat them and posting them on social media.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Cazmonster » Sat Jan 28, 2017 9:33 pm

The damage to the Oceans.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Phoebe » Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:00 pm

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?
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby bralbovsky » Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:51 pm

One word: plastics
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Cazmonster » Sat Feb 18, 2017 7:13 pm

"They created hardship for people that did not deserve hardship."
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby poorpete » Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:23 am

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?
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Ronster » Sun Feb 19, 2017 3:53 pm

For-profit healthcare and pharmaceuticals

(Poorpete stole my thunder for the other one)
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Cazmonster » Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:57 pm

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.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Ronster » Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:22 am

The pillaging of Social Security by Congress

The foster parent/child placement process.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Phoebe » Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:47 am

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.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby akiva » Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:18 pm

Golf courses in deserts.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Zen » Mon Feb 20, 2017 4:07 pm

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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby poorpete » Mon Feb 20, 2017 4:38 pm

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.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Phoebe » Tue Feb 21, 2017 7:08 am

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.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Ronster » Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:10 am

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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Ronster » Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:15 am

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.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Mike » Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:19 am

All I know is my food tastes better when I take my food-tastes-better pill.
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Re: Predict what the future will hate about us

Postby Ronster » Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:23 am

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