I find it gross that people make furries the butt of jokes even here. Like do you not see the glaring hypocrisy?
What will be the progressive issues of the future?
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Rehoboam will decide that for us!
In all seriousness, I also wonder about this too. I assume scientific advancements in the future can possibly correct the chemical imbalances in the brains of certain individuals but that also opens up the question of the morality behind those decisions.
Something I've noticed popping up in certain LGBT spaces I'm in is the concept of "plurality." Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a very, very rare condition in the psychiatric literature, but I've increasingly noticed people online identifying with having multiple people ("alters") sharing one mind. I don't personally understand it, but maybe future research will reveal a neurological basis for this, the way that researchers are starting to identify changes in brain structure correlated with being transgender.
Clearly headed toward UBI.
It's the natural endgame of the social safety net and taxing the rich.
It's the natural endgame of the social safety net and taxing the rich.
Since when has hobby acceptance been a civil rights / progressive issue?
The old incest conundrum is probably more of a conservative cause.
Sounds like maybe an extension of the self-categorization theory of identity, where your identity as an fan of whatever is separate from your identity as your profession and as your family position and so on, and you act a little differently depending on which identity is at the forefront. I think that's an accurate way to look at how people act but don't know how significant it is to understand it like that.
I wouldn't bring DID into it because this isn't a disorder.
The progressive issue is usually being nicer to people, and increasing individual freedom. Hobby acceptance is part of that being nicer/freedom thing.
In many european countries a lot of people are well compensated and not exploited for the work they do - so that will hopefully be the future for all. But it's still work. Even if your work is to play video games and eat candy - if it's an obligation, it's still work, you still dislike mondays - and you won't do it unless you're compensated. But the idea that people won't be employed or just do things they are passionate about is unrealistic for the next several centuries. So is the idea that employment is, by default, slavery. The things I read here are really strange.
Look, I know 2020 has been really tough on everyone and Era is not the most optimistic of places, but civilization is getting constantly better. It's not linear when you look segments of it, but zoom out and yeah, it's pretty much a linear progression. Don't believe me? Take any aspect of life and compare it with 100 years ago. Then compare that with 200 years ago, etc.
Pro-vaxxers vs Anti-vaxxers. Not sure how that will fall on the political spectrum cuz currently there seems to be crossover there. But as humans fuck with nature more and even deadlier animal-borne diseases transition over to humans, vaccinations and quarantining will become more pronounced issues in the future of humanity.
I think a big sleeper issue is aged and disability care. In particular whether or not we decide to put older people in nursing homes - there will be a big re-evaluation of this after Covid19 has spread like crazy through aged care facilities.
After solving every problem of prejudice and inequality between humans, and establishing a new kind of coexistence with the rest of the living beings in this planet… Perhaps the debate might move to the adequacy of running simulations of deceased people, as a duty towards ancestors and as away of coping with death.
But before that, probably this. Ecofascism is a real threat.
But before that, probably this. Ecofascism is a real threat.
You know, after seeing the whole "masks are bad because it blocks the faces that god made" arguments from actual fucking senators, I can't imagine how they'd react to Deus Ex style human augmentation.
Then again, they'd probably be for it as it would likely extend the lifespan of billionaires. Maybe the actual issue is who deserves to be augmented and how to make it affordable?
How far into the future are we talking?
Then again, they'd probably be for it as it would likely extend the lifespan of billionaires. Maybe the actual issue is who deserves to be augmented and how to make it affordable?
How far into the future are we talking?
At some point, humanity is going to have to have a very real discussion about population control and I feel like progressives could go either way with it. Maybe even split the left in two.
Some will be pro reproduction restrictions to help our planet while others will be pro human rights to reproduce.
Some will be pro reproduction restrictions to help our planet while others will be pro human rights to reproduce.
There will be no future for anyone sooner than later if we don't pretty much whole sale switch to a nuclear-power-based economy. It is the only technology that has a real chance of mitigating global warming AND increasing everyone's standard of living simultaneously.
For fission reactors, you have soon to be commercialized Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs). These will save us in the immediate term. We have enough nuclear fuel between uranium and thorium to last tens to hundreds of thousands of years at current global energy consumption rates. For fusion reactors, ARC collider reactors with a FLIBE molten salt blanket will likely make netting fusion power possible. That will be the end game technology that saves and improves everyone's life on earth for however long humanity can persist into the future (no limit as sea water is the fuel).
For fission reactors, you have soon to be commercialized Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs). These will save us in the immediate term. We have enough nuclear fuel between uranium and thorium to last tens to hundreds of thousands of years at current global energy consumption rates. For fusion reactors, ARC collider reactors with a FLIBE molten salt blanket will likely make netting fusion power possible. That will be the end game technology that saves and improves everyone's life on earth for however long humanity can persist into the future (no limit as sea water is the fuel).
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Gene editing for sure.
Regressives will demonize the objective health benefits as going again God or the natural order. Some nonsense along those lines. They'll opt to let themselves and their children suffer sickness, disability, and age-related infirmities as if taking the hand you're dealt by nature is a sign of moral purity.
The good news is they'll grow weaker and dumber as the rest of humanity becomes a better version of itself. The bad news is that people will probably tolerate their toxic influence for many decades too long, resulting in preventable misery and death on an obscene scale.
Regressives will demonize the objective health benefits as going again God or the natural order. Some nonsense along those lines. They'll opt to let themselves and their children suffer sickness, disability, and age-related infirmities as if taking the hand you're dealt by nature is a sign of moral purity.
The good news is they'll grow weaker and dumber as the rest of humanity becomes a better version of itself. The bad news is that people will probably tolerate their toxic influence for many decades too long, resulting in preventable misery and death on an obscene scale.
probably being reductive here but i'd imagine it'd go like:
gop incumbency: "aww this augmentation thing is THE SHIT"
dem incumbancy: "mark of the beast OMG, what about humanity??"
Read even a tiny amount of Marx. Nothing I'm saying is even remotely new, novel, or strange.
I'll be dead, but a post-monetary society where everyone's needs and wants are met is going to be interesting to see start to form.
Humanity produces enough (and more than enough) food to feed literally every single person on earth, and that capacity to feed will increase as technology moves forward. The issues of hunger and inequality are more essentially issues of capitalistic and political systems. Overpopulation is indeed a major factor in climate change as well, but it's impact is much decreased when weighed against the effects of uncontrolled industry. And then you get into the racial, eugenist, and xenophobic politics of controlling population, and eesh.
Be careful when thinking that overpopulation is the main cause of our existential threats, especially when it is oftentimes capitalistic interests leading us to those thoughts (I was in that mindset for a while myself until my economist friend called me out and I read more on the subject).
Probably our entire economic system and the moral bankruptcy if it all. Just how we look at the ridiculous notion of divine selection for monarchy rule and nobility, future generations will laugh at our system that was practically the same but with the lie that anyone could become the king if they worked hard enough as the major rule change.
