Where are we headed? Totalitarianism, or anarchy? Perhaps it's too much to prognosticate on the future of the world, but what about the US? Where is the country headed? My guess is, most people will say that the weather will continue much the same as it has. Winds will freshen from the west...etc. But where do you see the country or the world in 10, 25, 50, 100+ years? Go on Nostro - tell us...
I've been told that we are already at Communism and Socialism. My guns have been taken from me (crap, never owned any-scary times we live in).
I'm not saying I didn't enjoy a few adult beverages last night... That, and I was watching V for Vendetta. And yes, the ex has the child this weekend
Never really understood why a terrorist who wanted to blow up a bunch of people but most specifically a Protestant king just so he could install a Catholic queen became such a popular icon.
We were very 'into' religious fundamentalism and associated terrorism at the time*. In fact, it's STILL not considered polite conversation to mention religion over here. * I hear it's made something of a comeback recently but I don't know the details.
are we talking about the same movie? I missed the beginning of it, so perhaps I don't have the entire pic, but the movie I'm talking about is about a guy fighting against a 1984-style British government.
The mask the guy was wearing was a Guy Fawkes (sp) mask. Fawkes was the one who tried to blow up Parliament.
movies like that always get me thinking about our own society and the freedoms we enjoy - and wonder how long we will continue to enjoy them, especially with the rise of information technology and the information age.
Well, with the Protestant King in it more specifically but, yeah, that's the dude. Like I say, religious fundamentalism at it's finest. That's another reason I always laugh when people bang on about us living in a 'very different world after 9/11'. Er... if you say so mate
Guy Fawkes was a religious terrorist. Period, end of story. So it amuses me when some twerp in the year 2012 wears a Guy Fawkes mask while advocating for the exact opposite things.
Things will be surprisingly rosy .... Problems like poverty, war, crime and racism will be significantly reduced ... On the flip side we will be a lot more docile and conformed as people. We will also be much more artificial ... literally and spiritually
If we were having this conversation in 1942 maybe the most defensible argument would be that one or the other flavor of totalitarianism was almost certain to triumph, and that even if it didn't, the depression would come right back as soon as the terrors of a world war ended. It's useful to remember that, when you assume today's trends will continue into a distant future. That said, it really is true the Big Picture future of humanity will be decided by the winner of the race between the Singularity and Downfall. These are terms used by futurists who test the line between science fiction and mere prediction. The Singularity is the time when a truly intelligent computer abruptly begins to come up with (presumably) technological answers to our most important problems, and we hope they're benign. Downfall is the term for a problem we can neither fix nor survive, presumably of our own making, like a plague of nanorobots that destroy all human life, or real climate/ecological catastrophe, or global thermonuclear war. This is the kind of stuff that makes a global credit market meltdown seem like a bump in the road. The people who make this argument really need to be listened to, because if they prophecy it will be a million and it only turns out to be a hundred, that's still a really big deal.
I'm in hiding ever since the black helicopters dropped into our neighborhood and rounded up all my neighbors to take them to the camps where they'll all be turned gay.
Yeah but he's also the only person ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions. Arf arf. btw, the future will look more like (but not exactly the same as) the corporate neo-feudalism of a William Gibson story than either 1984 or "...Vendetta" because advertising and propaganda have gotten so much more sophisticated and slicker since the ham-fisted days of the 1930s.
count me in! the future is FUN! the future is FAIR! you may already have WON! you may already BE there! raQuel welch was in 1,000,000 years BC. which, no matter how you slice it, is NOT the future. not even for republicans.