Our future for the next 1000 years

[SoND]

I’m going to let my brain take a bit of a dump here on the general topic of whatever.

Over the past 100ish years things have changed, incredibly, astrofuckingnomially and we’re currently in the middle of a transition but to where? I’ve noticed that real long term plans are very missing in anything I’ve heard from the government or just people, I’m not sure if anyone cares or understands what is happening. Civilisations in the past never cared very much or were even able to cope with large numbers, some may have been able to understand the concept of the number One Billion but the size of it would have been obscene and totally unnecessary. In the past century we have discovered some astounding facts about who we are, where we came from and where we can potentially go. One of these facts is very interesting, very mundane and has never been appreciated by anyone before us and that is time and cosmological timescales. Imagine telling someone 500 years ago that Earth isn’t thousands of years old, not even tens of thousands, millions, hundreds of millions but several billion years. I can’t get my head around that number, a thousand years is a snapshot on that scale. I bet they weren’t thinking about time by the million years.

They weren’t able to worry about the things we do today nor did they have to, things have changed and we have to change to suit. Our beds were being laid for us with the industrial revolution, everything has grown, our population and use of resources especially. Corporations have survived for longer than any single human and have practically become an entity in of themselves. They raise us from cradle to grave with the accumulation of effort and knowhow (+resources) of our grandparents and their grandparents. However from the beginning of this revolution we have since learned that time goes on for a lot longer than anticipated, resources are a lot more finite and we have developed the ability to, if we wanted to, literally melt 95% of the (seemingly-impossibly) huge population we see today in a timeframe of days.

The corporations are our parents. They’ve made the world what it is today and will be responsible for where we go in the future. They’re responsible for the structure of our daily lives, they provide the jobs and services to keep people busy, they give us the comfort of our homes, and they feed and water us. Without the organisational structure of these entities we would be lost in our modern world. Without us there would be no them.

Automation has released countless humans from their duties on the production line. This has fucked us and we’re still feeling it. Things were easy before, you got a job at the local mine/farm/factory/trade and this was enough to make your living to feed your family and survive. Things have gotten a little more complicated. We no longer need the numbers of people before to supply the goods to the even bigger population and have focused our efforts into providing public services which runs counter to the idea of jobs to make stuff for a profit. Entertainment is a business that shouldn’t exist, placing extortionate value on something so useless just because you can exploit the simple mathematical fact that you can make a ton of cash by many small transactions for something that has little to zero resource value. Fucking pigs, blah.

It’s all pretty aimless, youths get told to find their own way with no accurate advice about what the world actually needs to sustain it/us. We’re raised on one hand to think we have it all, we’ve got riches, food, alcohol, cars, music and it’s time to enjoy ourselves and on the other we’re all going to die because oil, whales, the Chinese, 9/11, a meteorite and starving children in Africa. It’s not surprising to find that people who think they have it all decide to do degrees/further their education in something they find fun and interesting but of little value in the world of business/economy (Art, History, Music etcetcetc). Funnily enough they get bitched at and ridiculed for following their hearts and having no work at the end of it.

Why are we still running blind into the future instead of carving it for ourselves? We have no definitive answers on how we’re going to continue our lifestyles or exactly what way they need to change. We don’t know what people we need to do what jobs. We don’t know what to do with the people that have found themselves lost in our clusterfuck of a society. We don’t know wtf we’re doing at all, just grazing the planet and bitching at each other spending our time overwhelmed with temporary bullshit that consists of childish bickering through politics, celebrities, media or any other nonsense you can think of.

Spending too much time on this, need to get back to alcohols….

Is it unreasonable to want to have a firm plan to survive for the next 1000 years? Are we able to plan ahead to say “Do exactly this, that and this and we are guaranteed a defined lifestyle for the next ‘n’ years.”? Why do we get upset with unemployed people?

How do fix humanity?


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[D O G]

TL:DR

However, 1000 years ago people lived subsistance lives, were largely uneducated, disease, filth and death were commonplace.

If you asked your average Joe back then what life would be like in a thousand years, do you think they would have got anywhere near to what it is actually like now?

Future projections like that are totally pointless, other than for wasting a few hours and exercising one's imagination.

[Robby]

Too many people, too much work to make even more people, or keep people alive that should die. Most of the world south of the equator, for instance.

Nuclear war is inevitable at some point. That'll sort out most of the problems. Humanity performs best during and just after a crisis.

[D O G]

Ok, I read it now.

Yes, it is unreasonable.

Keep drinking.

[fatpies]

[SoND]

[Rogerborg]

When the oil runs and we're still giving money to bankers instead of physicists then expect a return to a coal powered 19th century standard of living. That is all.
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[Paddy Blake]

First people need to get past the religious sh1t.
Some think that a big war in the middle east will cause their god to come to earth and save them.
I would say people should look at getting passed the next 20 years.

These days the talk is about Iran and will China back them but I think
China could f@ck US by dumping their bonds on the market as they are the biggest holder atm.

I think someone will hit Iran within 2 months or at most 2 years and sh1h will fly.

So when their god does not arrive they will say well we did it wrong and will start some other war to get their god to come here.

We can do what we like but so long as religion is part of peoples thinking it makes no difference as people think do this and that and die than go to a nice place.

[Skudd]

The Pharaohs and Slaves had the same issues but with different technology/finance. In 20,000 years we will have the same issues on Mars and Pluto.
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[el_oso]

i don't think society as a whole will move forward. people will not be needed to do anything. machines will do everything for us and people will be content on just sitting there and watching the world go by as they play angry birds version 101 on their iPhone 2100.
The way in which we live is changing. The population is growing exponentially and the need for human involvement is rapidly declining. what are all these people going to do with their lives. they are not needed. All the dumb fvkers that had to do manual labour because they couldn't do anything else will not be able to contribute as their job can be done by a machine quicker and more perfect than what he could do.
People have changed their paradigm from living to survive to living for entertainment. At this moment in time a person can do absolutely nothing and get given shelter and food. everything they need to survive. 200 years ago you wouldn't be able to survive without doing anything.
money needs to hurry up and become completely and utterly worthless.
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[el_oso]

synthetic oils can be made for lubricational purposes.
there are other forms of energy available. society won't accept them because they are too dangerous and/or corporations won't switch over because oil is cheaper than nucelar/solar/fusion/tidal power and that would eat into their profits.
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[Dr. Quack]

Did we ever consider the possibility that evil just may exist?
Let's look back a few thousand years to predict the next few thousand years.

Heroicized monotheised religion deluded and appeared to tell its troops they were the chosen ones, and that all others are the enemy.
Possibly the parables and the words of enlightened beings perverted for purposes of acquiring false pervasive power over others, who then tells the uneducated, the desperate, the poor thus the easily suggestible how things should be(False priests/False reality), then with force and enslavement to capitalism > subjugates.
From 1379 BC The Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) pervades the minds of the masses with monotheistic delusion, Aten the Sun God was prophesied to be the main deity and used to take on Tuthmosis IV, soon after Akhenaten become pharaoh of Egypt.
King David’s reign 1003–970 BC, alleges the prophet Moses commands the murder of approximately 100,000 young males and, roughly, 68,000 helpless women.
The Persians used this with an abused form of Zoroastrianism along with force to rule half the known world (500 BCE)
So did the Roman Empire with Catholicism 44 BC to 1453 AD
The decline of the Roman Empire led to the Spanish Inquisition > People deluded by heretics accusing people of being heretics, which lead to the worst torture of human beings imaginable.
In 1209, Louis VIII of France through Pope Innocent III in Bezier raised Catholic forces and massacred 20,000 Gnostic’s who made every effort to follow the teachings of Jesus.
They believed that there were two "gods" — one malevolent in charge of all visible and material things held responsible for all the atrocities in the Old Testament, and a benevolent god responsible for the message of Jesus.
So did the Ottoman Empire (1301-1922) Islam, all others are the enemy!
So did the British Empire.
So did the Spanish and Portuguese, in South America 1494 which went on for 400 years, All which fell, all which will fall.
All threatening a version of the truth and reality held by the empowered, a threat to castle insanity/false empires, war breaks up the family home = no learned moral parameters.
The trouble is, dictatorships are given rise to result of cultural moral decay (More immoralities committed upon each other)
People were and still are deluded then given knives/capitalism > it’s evil!
Heresy as shown above has always been pursued by the avaricious, selfish and ignorant/spiritually dead, to further their own gains at the expense and destruction of others, then upon identifying with it as themselves bring their castles down around them killing yet more innocent people.

The worrying thing is, is that we are constantly told via the media that something terrible may happen upon and beyond the 26,000 year Mayon calendar which ends Dec 2012.
When in fact they actually prophesised the arrival of strangers/enlightened being to fulfil a new teaching about ecology, climate, human beings identifying with materialism, lost wisdom, consciousness, that our minds construct this material paradigm which is actually only a reality(not real, so what’s with all he wars!) in these faithless deluded times.

I could surf the tidal wave of darkness to get to the other shore,
Only for those chains of malevolent sin clinging to my surf board.
Aloft the wave I try to stay with the prayer and pretence grin,
Yet my pride and ignorance always drags me back to the sea bed floor.

Were it not for a carapace of words
Would my mind be clearer to see?
Deep in Karma's ocean,
The rendering of delusion duality.

Clouding my envisagement, and my will to see,
Exoteric darkness, bombarding my desire of whom I would like to be?
Deeper in karma's ocean it becomes more clear to me,
The faithless seeds we sew are the cloud over we.

A carapace of delusion now bolted to my tree,
A purveyor of this lie, I discover I need not be?
Ever deeper in karma’s ocean, oh Lord I can now see!
Pointless trying to render planet purgatory.

Ruminating where I go not knowing whence to be,
Answering my conscience to face my demons is me.
I think I know, I’m becoming filled with glee,
Only lights can be born from the darkess, goodbye castle insanity!

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