It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.
It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.
On top of that though, the world is literally different today than it was then. Some things changed EVERYTHING - agriculture, fire, medicine, even just knowing to wash our hands, etc. The advent of vaccines may have arguably altered our world in beautiful, wonderful, and potentially terrible ways - allowing children to have an extremely high chance to reach 80 years of age, as opposed to an enormous chance (way more than half) of dying prior to 5 years old.
And the information era radically altered our world. Except it also birthed the post-information, or perhaps we should call it the disinformation era. When companies such as Google were playing nice, we had free access to ALL of the information in the entire world. Whereas now… we don’t, but as soon as they can figure it out, they’ll have us sign up with a subscription to be able to “know things”. What came before was always temporary, but we lied to ourselves telling one another or at least acting as if it would last forever.
My proof: https://hexbear.net/post/3820065. I know it’s hexbear, but click it anyway. Hint: it’s dis-information - active retelling of the story so as to ignore the facts and substitute their own presentation of their own… “alternative facts”.
And for someone who isn’t smart enough to know the difference, how can they tell the difference? WE heard the horrific screams of the police officer as they were brutally murdered. We know of the other ones who died, including one who later committed suicide. We have empathy for their families. We saw the hearings. We heard the testimony, of the officers. We have seen the people involved admit their actions, and some apologized.
Or, you know, iT wAs PEacEfUlL, “it was hilarious and looked like tailgating gone wrong after too much booze”, or as one commenter said “I hope it happens again” (11 upvotes as of now).
So… WILL we learn the lessons that we would need to in order to survive? I am not so certain myself. But maybe! Either way, we indeed will HAVE to, if there is to be any hope of the survival of our current way of life IMHO.