losing family members of all ages due to cancer. I think we will look at it the same way we look at humans dying at like 30 just a few hundred years ago.
How we speak of and treat the homeless. The language we use is reserved for vermin and trash. Something you just want to get out of sight. And the mental hoops we jump through to justify it.
The villainization of men, boys & general masculinity.
Particularly the widespread drugging of boys for acting like normal healthy children in their appropriate developmental windows.
Followed by denying both boys and girls male role models as children, as fathers through state bias, but also as teachers & mentors by social bias & outright hostility towards men interacting with children.
The insane amount of people who think that immigrants deserve everything that’s coming to them and would even deserve death just for the crime of being in a country they aren’t a citizen of
Way too many people think of illegal immigrants the same way a white blood cell thinks of a bacterium: just a foreign contaminant that deserves to be erased if things come to that
The commodification of absolutely every aspect of being alive. Nothing is allowed to be a hobby anymore, and nothing is free. I noticed this with the commodification of social media and how every youtuber and their mother is being sponsored by hellofresh, and how no one’s actual opinion can be trusted, because it’s for sale.
Well if tthings keep going South the answer to that might be: getting kids to eat broccoli or something like that.
But if I dared hope we become ‘better’ I’d say:
The conditions we breathe our lifestock under.
The fact that in the 2020s the pendulum started swinging away from liberal demcoracies and inclusion principles.
Dirty fuels.
Sanitary pads
Working hours staying the same despite increased automation, making the rich richer faster and tthe poor and middle class only a little better off…. and the widening gap between the middle class and the super-rich.
Our evaporation of privacy. It won’t be until all this data is used against us en mass that we will look back and wish we hadn’t given it to them so freely.
It’s “not a normal stage of aging” according to my nursing teacher. And mRNA vaccines along with knowledge from alpha fold could give us a vaccine to remove the protein that triggers dementia
Probably modern roadways. One of the most dangerous things we do, all for the convenience of going faster. And each and every car on a busy highway is being driven by an individual with pretty bare bones training, many with hyped up anger emotions while being behind the wheel, or might be totally sleep deprived.
I feel like teflon will be like asbestos! People will go like damn this shit was in literally every pan?? And y‘all already knew its cancerous and still used it
Sigh. One can hope but I doubt it. Genocide, modern slavery, eating animals (at least needlessly killing or torturing them), torture of humans, murder/war, absence of human rights to those over a border, white supremacy, homophobia and transphobia, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and the far right (or really just the right.) I highly doubt one of those things will cease to exist. We’ve had 150,000 years on the planet and we still suck at life as a species.
Some people not looking at their phones every waking hour. They probably won’t be phones at that time, but whatever the device is, you’ll be required to be looking at it at all times, especially if you’re around other people.
Parental leave. In the UK, fathers are only entitled to two weeks paid leave (though there are shared leave options). I know it’s even worse in the US, with lots of mothers and fathers forced back to work an insanely short time after birth.
All the Botox and fillers and injections people get in their face that has become so accessible and normalized. It already is starting to get out of hand and look incredibly unnatural, and we have no clue the long term effects of all those chemicals injected regularly with no abandon will have because we are still in the find out phase.
Future geologists are going to be discovering skeletons coated in plastic residue and goo, wondering what the heck people were doing in our time.
I was talking to my friend about how everytime we look back on our hygiene in different times and we get disgusted so I have a feeling in 50-100 years our hygiene standards will evolve.
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Plastics everywhere, especially in food
Cars as personal transport.
losing family members of all ages due to cancer. I think we will look at it the same way we look at humans dying at like 30 just a few hundred years ago.
Commuting.
School shootings *may be limited to Americans
The 9 to 5 grind
That we let kids use phones
Computers, satellites . . .
Spending 7+ hours a day in front of electronics. I hope that’s weird someday.
gestures vaguely at everything…
Social media.
Health insurance
Fossil fuel
40 hour work week
The Trump Administration
Eating animals
How we speak of and treat the homeless. The language we use is reserved for vermin and trash. Something you just want to get out of sight. And the mental hoops we jump through to justify it.
Driving.
The villainization of men, boys & general masculinity.
Particularly the widespread drugging of boys for acting like normal healthy children in their appropriate developmental windows.
Followed by denying both boys and girls male role models as children, as fathers through state bias, but also as teachers & mentors by social bias & outright hostility towards men interacting with children.
The insane amount of people who think that immigrants deserve everything that’s coming to them and would even deserve death just for the crime of being in a country they aren’t a citizen of
Way too many people think of illegal immigrants the same way a white blood cell thinks of a bacterium: just a foreign contaminant that deserves to be erased if things come to that
Factory farming
What’s happening in Gaza. History will never be written by the victors ever again.
-Micro plastics
-Not addressing anthropogenic climate change
-Forever chemicals
-Resurgent fascism across the Western world.
An optimistic case for the United States: Private for-profit health insurance companies
Our overconsumption
Not necessarily normal but cancer treatment
Easy answers are anything medical and how we view/treat marginalized groups.
The fact that people outright deny science and disregard evidence. Also hopefully the fact that we destroy the environment.
The commodification of absolutely every aspect of being alive. Nothing is allowed to be a hobby anymore, and nothing is free. I noticed this with the commodification of social media and how every youtuber and their mother is being sponsored by hellofresh, and how no one’s actual opinion can be trusted, because it’s for sale.
if we make it 50 years, our oblivious use of plastics and fossil fuels.
Food waste
Well if tthings keep going South the answer to that might be: getting kids to eat broccoli or something like that.
But if I dared hope we become ‘better’ I’d say:
Conflict and human suffering in Palestine.
What’s happening in Gaza funded by American taxes. Will likely make the Vietnam War look tame by comparison.
Our evaporation of privacy. It won’t be until all this data is used against us en mass that we will look back and wish we hadn’t given it to them so freely.
Trump
Dementia.
It’s “not a normal stage of aging” according to my nursing teacher. And mRNA vaccines along with knowledge from alpha fold could give us a vaccine to remove the protein that triggers dementia
The amount of plastic used in every part of life. Especially disposable plastic in packaging.
genocide.
Probably modern roadways. One of the most dangerous things we do, all for the convenience of going faster. And each and every car on a busy highway is being driven by an individual with pretty bare bones training, many with hyped up anger emotions while being behind the wheel, or might be totally sleep deprived.
Eating animals.
I feel like teflon will be like asbestos! People will go like damn this shit was in literally every pan?? And y‘all already knew its cancerous and still used it
Billionaires going to space while people can’t afford rent.
Future generations will think we were living in a dystopian satire… and honestly, that would be fair
Eating dead animals
Filling your car with petrol at the petrol station
Sigh. One can hope but I doubt it. Genocide, modern slavery, eating animals (at least needlessly killing or torturing them), torture of humans, murder/war, absence of human rights to those over a border, white supremacy, homophobia and transphobia, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and the far right (or really just the right.) I highly doubt one of those things will cease to exist. We’ve had 150,000 years on the planet and we still suck at life as a species.
Just look at the other versions of this very question
I’m hoping it’s that affordable housing isn’t a human right and provided to everyone but I’m not holding my breath
“Healthy” eating.
Open Office Architecture. Future generations will laugh at this like we laugh at the old secretarial pools of yesteryear.
Some people not looking at their phones every waking hour. They probably won’t be phones at that time, but whatever the device is, you’ll be required to be looking at it at all times, especially if you’re around other people.
Blithely sharing our most personal data with the corpos, including where they can come and find us at any time.
Less than 5 gallons of water being packaged in tiny single use plastic bottles.
Social media
Flushing toilets with potable water.
That people with real actual power have advocated for taking the right to vote away from women
You’re living it
Parental leave. In the UK, fathers are only entitled to two weeks paid leave (though there are shared leave options). I know it’s even worse in the US, with lots of mothers and fathers forced back to work an insanely short time after birth.
US fascism
Living…in 50 years I’ll be gone from this earthly plain (Lord willing and the creek don’t rise).
plastic everything
Transphobia, and the “debate” about trans people in gendered spaces. That’s just me hoping I’ll get to live in peace by the time I’m 80, though.
*vaguely gestures*
There is quite a number of things and too many to list.
How much of our time we gave to work.
All the Botox and fillers and injections people get in their face that has become so accessible and normalized. It already is starting to get out of hand and look incredibly unnatural, and we have no clue the long term effects of all those chemicals injected regularly with no abandon will have because we are still in the find out phase.
Future geologists are going to be discovering skeletons coated in plastic residue and goo, wondering what the heck people were doing in our time.
Eating animals
I was talking to my friend about how everytime we look back on our hygiene in different times and we get disgusted so I have a feeling in 50-100 years our hygiene standards will evolve.