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How will History Judge Todays World...[That Is Of Course If There Are Any Judges Left To judge]
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Posted by chefone (U14431437) on Sunday, 3rd April 2011
Todays world of "Stuff" has gone Mad....
Financial Institutions Have gone Mad.....
The Armies of the world Have gone Mad....
Religions have always Been Mad........
What a World we are living in....!
If there actually exsist wise judges in the future,....Then it will be a miracle....
chef -
Message 2
Posted by Mr_Edwards (U3815709) on Monday, 4th April 2011
Financial Institutions will, hopefully be judged thus... or perhaps thus (actually, with the latter case, maybe we could persuade some naive dotcom to take on the National Debt... it would solve a lot of problems.
As for armies, I'd say ours are less mad than those of the past... such as the Swedish Army in the thirty years war... or the Austrians at Karansebes -
Message 3
Posted by Silver Jenny (U12795676) on Monday, 4th April 2011
Todays world of "Stuff" has gone Mad....,/quote>
What 'stuff' would that be chefone. The Victorians for example had a bonanza with industrial building and a mountain of domestic items from crinolines to asparagus tongs. 21C stuff just happens to be involved with instant communicatio It is therefore more obvious than items which had to be made to order or purchased at considerable cost form emporiums*.
* always wanted to get that word in somewhere!. -
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Posted by fascinating (U1944795) on Monday, 4th April 2011
Firstly I think that judgement occurs within the first 100 years after events, after which the events are seen as so far in the past as to be of more curiosity value. I think we will be judged as weak people obsessed with consuming things and excessively interested in ephemera, like sport and pop music. While pivotal events, such as the fall of communism, happen around us, the British press was obsessed with the Spice Girls and sport.
I think cosmetic surgery and health improvements will make almost everybody in the future in the peak of health, so we will be seen as fat and ugly people. People will laugh at our ridiculous obsession with consumerism, leading to being unable to get our economy (or even our bodies) in order, resulting in decades-long stagnation and high unemployment. a situation only brought to an end when Europe and America broke up, in the decade after 2030, into individual small states of around 5 million population or less, which declared their independence from the over-arching human rights legislation and social security regulations, and then, some with more success than others, put their economies on sound footing by reform of their currencies. Labour mobility between states increased hugely because instant tranlsation devices rendered the language barrier a thing of the past.
Our age will be seen as pivotal in several ways, as around this date some people were born who would live one for at least 1000 years, due to ever-advancing medicine. The true age of the robot, where those machines became nearly as prevalent as cars, and were capable of doing almost all menial tasks, was just around the corner. -
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Posted by Sambista (U4068266) on Monday, 4th April 2011
Todays world of "Stuff" has gone Mad....,/quote>
What 'stuff' would that be chefone. The Victorians for example had a bonanza with industrial building and a mountain of domestic items from crinolines to asparagus tongs. 21C stuff just happens to be involved with instant communicatio It is therefore more obvious than items which had to be made to order or purchased at considerable cost form emporiums*.
* always wanted to get that word in somewhere!.Μύ Shouldn't that be "emporia"? -
Message 6
Posted by fascinating (U1944795) on Monday, 4th April 2011
The Victorians for example had a bonanza with industrial building and a mountain of domestic items from crinolines to asparagus tongs. 21C stuff just happens to be involved with instant communicatio It is therefore more obvious than items which had to be made to order or purchased at considerable cost form emporiums*.
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The quantity of "stuff" that the Victorians had was tiny in comparison to what we have today. The vast majority of the population then was in dire poverty (life expectancy about 40, and what money each family had mostly went on feeding their 10 kids. Remember they had no plastic (unless you count bakelite). Consider the variety of objects bought and sold each Christmas nowadays, not all of it of any great use. Or think about the amount of shoes the average woman has, or the vehicle, each with about 20 gadgets, a man has, these days. Consider the amount that we actually throw out. -
Message 7
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Monday, 4th April 2011
Fascinating, you've highlighted the enigma. History, or rather historians, will judge us from their perspective, based on whatever evidence they select from what is available to them, and their conclusions, like our own when looking back into history, will be contingent and situated despite what we must hope are their best attempts to be objective. We can't know how the future will judge us without knowing what that future will be like and the one thing we know is, we can't predict that. In 1969 who would have imagined that we would not have permanent moon base or manned flights to Mars but instead the laptop on your knee had more computing power than they had available on the moon or that the defining technology would be mobile and social and have the potential to bring down governments.
Would Dicky3 ever have guessed the arguments that have raged over him on this board, instantly, between people in continents which he didn't know existed?
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