The world 2050?

[Dimentio]

How do you think our world will look like around 2050? I am talking politically, economically, socially and technologically. This is not a normative discussion, or wishful-thinking discussion, but a discussion about what trends we have today and how they will affect our future.

I advise us all to read Immanuel Wallerstein's antology The world we are entering.

[NecroCommie]

If somekind of change of attitudes is not to be, the world will be as stupid as fuck. I am serious, how many of you have noticed how the mass media not only discourages political activity, but actually promotes stupidity in some instances. The most disgusting and sexist of these examples would be the stereotype of a man who likes stupid women because "they are easy". Nerd is a curse word while it actually refers to an intelligent or civilized person.

This trend too has roots in capitalism. The mass media in its search for more and more profits has resorted to the cheapest and the most non-chivalric means possible. It no longer report news and transfer information, but it is reduced to a tool of telling the public what it wants to hear and see. Only the media products that mirror the wild fantasies of the public earn vast market shares.

This trend can only be tackled by the promotion and further evolution of a new era of enlightment (an era which promotes intelligence over feelings). Such has always been the goal of the communist movement, and it must be achieved by the dissolving of this neo-romantic way of thought. So on to the streets with you! Mock and dishonor all who would make decisions solely upon feelings! :lol:

Damn! I might have enough stuff to write an article about this.

[Rebel_Serigan]

The world in 40 years? There are only two ways this world will be in four decades: dead or socialist. I wish I was kidding but I must side with Necro Commie on this one. We are in a world that encourages apathy and self fullfilment over action and helping others. How can society progess when the vast majority does not want to? Something will have to shake the very foundations of what the majority's morals are in order to wake them up. We live in a world of sleepers and it is our job to wake them up before it is too late.

The world will either continue on this downward spiral and collapse into a hopeless mass of self centered media-addicted pill junkies. That's right pills are the newest craze; got a problem? Here's a pill. Feel better?-No, try another one. It is sickening to see a world that once preached about advancement and "if you don't work you don't eat" into a wasteland for stupidity and apathy. If there is a rightous and loving sky ghost out there he had better decend down and tell all of his followers to get thier deluded heads out of the clouds and wake up. We need to band together and work together or else we will be living in a giant sespool. Perhasps we will not all be dead from nuclear war but we will be dead to change and beterment.

In fourty years this nworld will be a very different place, one way or the other, but if we keep up this rout we are going to be up shit creek without a paddle or a boat. 2050 is a long way off and we had better start moving or else we will be knee deep in the future.

*Clears throat* I seem to have gotten off topic, in 2050 the world we know will be gone. All things will have changed, the real question is who will be writing the history books in that future so far away?

[cyu]

I don't like participating in predictions unless in can affect current action.

If all you're doing is predicting, you've turned yourself into a mere observer.

If observation doesn't translate into action, then I would say it's fairly useless.

[Dimentio]

I don't like participating in predictions unless in can affect current action.

If all you're doing is predicting, you've turned yourself into a mere observer.

If observation doesn't translate into action, then I would say it's fairly useless.

Observation could be important in weighing in what action could be most effcient.

An army is not only composed of foot soldiers.

It needs cavalrists, artillery, engineers, strategists...

[cb9's_unity]

In all honesty no one can know how the world will look like in 40 years. However the region that could possibly have the largest effect on the world is Latin America and the U.S relation to it. If the region as a whole continues to move to the left and a few real socialist countries pop up the whole world may have to take socialism seriously again. It will also be interesting to see how the U.S will react to countries that it usually had firm control over. If it takes the same side it has in the past, the side of imperialism, it could enrage the extreme liberal members of the bourgeois population and lead to a larger movement in the U.S.

I guess its just a wild guess and there are certainly other areas of the world that will effect the future but for me Latin America is really a place to watch.

[cyu]

Observation could be important in weighing in what action could be most effcient.

Definitely agreed. However, as you observe and act, it will in fact change what the year 2050 will look like. The more you act, the more 2050 will change - so that makes predictions a moving target. I guess you can try predicting something like: "If we do X, then Y will happen." But it's not easy to guess how long it will take before Y happens, or if Y will happen at all. If Y doesn't happen, then we may have to do Z instead.

Anyway, I'd say 2050 is pretty murky, but that still doesn't change the world we want. Maybe the current situation may change the actions we'll take to get the world we want, but I would rather focus on what we can do about it.

[Killfacer]

(edit) i posted something that someone idiot my decide to whinge to an admin about and call spam so i deleted it. Can an admin destroy this?