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The outlook on the future thread got me thinking. Right now, it seems that history is headed for bleak stagnation. However, if you will, imagine a future a couple of centuries from now, where things turn out as well as we'd hope they would. My question: How did it get there?

Discuss!

Those who screw with or try to make history tend to fuck it up for everbody and the ones who clean the mess up are the ones who make history. The future is bleak only because for change to happen, some painful measures will be undertaken. Change is always painful in one way or another.

Once the thermonuclear cleansing is complete and the scouring finished, I will rebuild a new world based on the pillars of pain, suffering, depravation and my personal self-indulgence.

This world will be far greater then any previously know to mortal man.

I say we rewrite history!

In (year), (your first name)(your last name) was angry at (country) for (gerund) them too much. So he led (number) of brave men to fight for independence from (same country)...

On a more serious note, humanity will eventually end, whether it be an asteroid impact next week, a nuclear attack 100 years from now, or the sun dying out after 5 billion more years.

GrandMasterTerwynn wrote:If this belongs in S,L,&M, could one of the moderators please move it there:

The outlook on the future thread got me thinking. Right now, it seems that history is headed for bleak stagnation. However, if you will, imagine a future a couple of centuries from now, where things turn out as well as we'd hope they would. My question: How did it get there?

Discuss!

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I'm betting the world will go one the way it has. mountains of skulls, rivers of blood, some good excuses, and the poor bastards caught at the bottom.

stagnation my ass

this isn't the dark ages by any standard.

at lease we shall explore the bounds of bad taste no matter what.

Man-made catastrophe will wipe out most of humanity. Survivors will improve to prevent recurrence

Except its been provent hat humanity never really learns from its mistakes.

The world ends up looking like Fallout. Not an entirely bad thing, but...

SWPIGWANG wrote:stagnation my ass
this isn't the dark ages by any standard.

Not yet, anyway. But social progress has turned into social regression and that's a key early warning that things are going to go to hell in a handbasket sooner rather than later.

social progress is a oxymoron anyway.

unless human nature change, there is no lasting progress.