At the speed society evolves, so too does warfare. pic.twitter.com/qU9lP5WAGT
— Joshua Hartley (@JHartley2) January 22, 2024
I added the warning, but you thought a "terrifying" video about the dystopian future portrayed in terminator becoming real would not be disturbing?redline248 said:
Bro, how about a warning for graphic content?
ffs
We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
redline248 said:
Bro, how about a warning for graphic content?
ffs
I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
BadMoonRisin said:
Reminds me of a call of duty game from like 10 years ago where you had RC cars with bombs on them.
We thought that was a pretty big stretch back then.
El Gallo Blanco said:I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
The child born ten years from now will never even get a slight taste of how awesome it was to grow up in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I hope I am wrong.
Are people getting happier? Or are rates of suicide, depression, addiction, anxiety, and mental illness trending in a direction that would indicate otherwise? Are people marrying and having kids like they used to?$240 Worth of Pudding said:El Gallo Blanco said:I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
The child born ten years from now will never even get a slight taste of how awesome it was to grow up in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I hope I am wrong.
Look, I hear you and get the concern. But my father (born in 1943) talks all the time about how the world is damn near unrecognizable and going to hell in a hand basket . The funny thing is he always used to tell me how his grandfather (born in 1882) used to say the exact same things to him when he was a kid in the 40's and 50's.
We'll adapt. Try not to get sucked into the negativity void. Remember, the news and all these people on social media are trying to get eyeballs. If it bleeds, it leads. You're not seeing all the good things in the world. It could be argued that's by design, but that's another thread.
El Gallo Blanco said:I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
The child born ten years from now will never even get a slight taste of how awesome it was to grow up in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I hope I am wrong.
$240 Worth of Pudding said:BadMoonRisin said:
Reminds me of a call of duty game from like 10 years ago where you had RC cars with bombs on them.
We thought that was a pretty big stretch back then.
Cheap tech. The race is on for cheap counter measures.
Suicide, depression, mental illness, drug addiction, marriage rates, general rates of happiness support this? Surely people are just as happy now, if not happier right? Healthier too, right?YellowPot_97 said:El Gallo Blanco said:I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
The child born ten years from now will never even get a slight taste of how awesome it was to grow up in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I hope I am wrong.
Said every generation since the beginning of time. It was always better "back in my day". Ol army been going to hell since 1877.
Don't be a drama queen. You live in the most peaceful time in human history. You're just getting older. You'll be fine. Your kids will be fine. Your grandkids will live in an even a better world than you grew up in.
My grandfather had to get up on cold mornings to poop in an outhouse. For my sixteenth BD he wrote me a letter about when he was 16 and going to town (3 miles down the road) in a horse and buggy.El Gallo Blanco said:Suicide, depression, mental illness, drug addiction, marriage rates, general rates of happiness support this? Surely people are just as happy now, if not happier right? Healthier too, right?YellowPot_97 said:El Gallo Blanco said:I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
The child born ten years from now will never even get a slight taste of how awesome it was to grow up in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I hope I am wrong.
Said every generation since the beginning of time. It was always better "back in my day". Ol army been going to hell since 1877.
Don't be a drama queen. You live in the most peaceful time in human history. You're just getting older. You'll be fine. Your kids will be fine. Your grandkids will live in an even a better world than you grew up in.
No, it's the opposite. We are in an ugly adjustment phase that could last decades, if not more.
And I don't know about you, but my grandfather and father always talked about how much more brutal life was in their time. But maybe that was a good thing. People were happier and healthier. Families were stronger as well.
El Gallo Blanco said:Are people getting happier? Or are rates of suicide, depression, addiction, anxiety, and mental illness trending in a direction that would indicate otherwise? Are people marrying and having kids like they used to?$240 Worth of Pudding said:El Gallo Blanco said:I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
The child born ten years from now will never even get a slight taste of how awesome it was to grow up in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I hope I am wrong.
Look, I hear you and get the concern. But my father (born in 1943) talks all the time about how the world is damn near unrecognizable and going to hell in a hand basket . The funny thing is he always used to tell me how his grandfather (born in 1882) used to say the exact same things to him when he was a kid in the 40's and 50's.
We'll adapt. Try not to get sucked into the negativity void. Remember, the news and all these people on social media are trying to get eyeballs. If it bleeds, it leads. You're not seeing all the good things in the world. It could be argued that's by design, but that's another thread.
I think there are a lot of indicators that the old way was better, and that people were happier and healthier. And it's normal for old codgers in their 80's to vent about the direction of society...but I am hearing this sh** from my peers in their 30's and 40's...just given the rate at which we are advancing to a completely unrecognizable world. I could just hear some old war vets sitting on their front porches in the 80's saying to each other "Can you believe these young punks wearing earrings?"...well this is now "Can you believe the local ISD allows these things called furries to pretend they are animals in school and has to accommodate them by putting litter boxes in the bathrooms" or "can you believe they are putting literal gay p0rn cartoon books in childrens school libraries that depict boys and young men blowing each other and having sex?" or "Can you believe they are lopping off breasts and genitals of minors?"...could go on and on.
I'm not "giving up"...it is what it is...and I am dedicated to trying to recreate the world I grew up in for my offspring...which may eventually require moving from the suburbs to some rural community somewhere.
Are things better than they were in the 80's in terms of societal function and overall quality of life? Surely they are...so surely rates of suicide, depression, mental illness, and addiction are DOWN from then right? Surely people are happier and healthier and more fulfilled overall? Oh wait, the EXACT OPPOSITE is true. Hmmm...GeorgiAg said:My grandfather had to get up on cold mornings to poop in an outhouse. For my sixteenth BD he wrote me a letter about when he was 16 and going to town (3 miles down the road) in a horse and buggy.El Gallo Blanco said:Suicide, depression, mental illness, drug addiction, marriage rates, general rates of happiness support this? Surely people are just as happy now, if not happier right? Healthier too, right?YellowPot_97 said:El Gallo Blanco said:I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
The child born ten years from now will never even get a slight taste of how awesome it was to grow up in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I hope I am wrong.
Said every generation since the beginning of time. It was always better "back in my day". Ol army been going to hell since 1877.
Don't be a drama queen. You live in the most peaceful time in human history. You're just getting older. You'll be fine. Your kids will be fine. Your grandkids will live in an even a better world than you grew up in.
No, it's the opposite. We are in an ugly adjustment phase that could last decades, if not more.
And I don't know about you, but my grandfather and father always talked about how much more brutal life was in their time. But maybe that was a good thing. People were happier and healthier. Families were stronger as well.
Things are better, and worse.
powerbelly said:
I would guess human pilot.
I am very happy and fulfilled in life, online venting aside. It's the youth, that doesn't even have the glory days as a benchmark, who are more filled with despair than ever...if you follow all of the metrics related to "happiness" or "fulfillment". They are less happy and mentally healthy than ever. That is what sucks imo.$240 Worth of Pudding said:El Gallo Blanco said:Are people getting happier? Or are rates of suicide, depression, addiction, anxiety, and mental illness trending in a direction that would indicate otherwise? Are people marrying and having kids like they used to?$240 Worth of Pudding said:El Gallo Blanco said:I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
The child born ten years from now will never even get a slight taste of how awesome it was to grow up in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I hope I am wrong.
Look, I hear you and get the concern. But my father (born in 1943) talks all the time about how the world is damn near unrecognizable and going to hell in a hand basket . The funny thing is he always used to tell me how his grandfather (born in 1882) used to say the exact same things to him when he was a kid in the 40's and 50's.
We'll adapt. Try not to get sucked into the negativity void. Remember, the news and all these people on social media are trying to get eyeballs. If it bleeds, it leads. You're not seeing all the good things in the world. It could be argued that's by design, but that's another thread.
I think there are a lot of indicators that the old way was better, and that people were happier and healthier. And it's normal for old codgers in their 80's to vent about the direction of society...but I am hearing this sh** from my peers in their 30's and 40's...just given the rate at which we are advancing to a completely unrecognizable world. I could just hear some old war vets sitting on their front porches in the 80's saying to each other "Can you believe these young punks wearing earrings?"...well this is now "Can you believe the local ISD allows these things called furries to pretend they are animals in school and has to accommodate them by putting litter boxes in the bathrooms" or "can you believe they are putting literal gay p0rn cartoon books in childrens school libraries that depict boys and young men blowing each other and having sex?" or "Can you believe they are lopping off breasts and genitals of minors?"...could go on and on.
I'm not "giving up"...it is what it is...and I am dedicated to trying to recreate the world I grew up in for my offspring...which may eventually require moving from the suburbs to some rural community somewhere.
Again, I get the sentiment, but it's a fools errand.
You can never go home again.
You can make the best of it….that's what we're all trying to do….but constantly looking backwards its a recipe for endless despair.
aTmAg said:
In the 70s and 80s there were tons of nuclear scares. Until my dad set me straight as a kid, I used to naively think that we'd be nuked before I got to age 50.
Suicide, depression, mental illness, alcoholism, female mortality, infant mortality, and what is happiness has been the issue since the dawn of civilization. It was way worse.El Gallo Blanco said:Suicide, depression, mental illness, drug addiction, marriage rates, general rates of happiness support this? Surely people are just as happy now, if not happier right? Healthier too, right?YellowPot_97 said:El Gallo Blanco said:I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
The child born ten years from now will never even get a slight taste of how awesome it was to grow up in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I hope I am wrong.
Said every generation since the beginning of time. It was always better "back in my day". Ol army been going to hell since 1877.
Don't be a drama queen. You live in the most peaceful time in human history. You're just getting older. You'll be fine. Your kids will be fine. Your grandkids will live in an even a better world than you grew up in.
No, it's the opposite. We are in an ugly adjustment phase that could last decades, if not more.
And I don't know about you, but my grandfather and father always talked about how much more brutal life was in their time. But maybe that was a good thing. People were happier and healthier. Families were stronger as well.
With regards to your bolded portion, no way in hell. But just curious...please define "better".
Nothing could ever convince me that my childhood, as in, the era I grew up in (80's and early 90's) and the quality of life and that came with it, was WORSE than today. That kids nowadays are and will be better off in life. I reject that with every fiber in my being...I see pudgy and obese kids every day that probably aren't even allowed to play outside. They will have fancier gadgets to take over their minds...which some here seem to equate with "a wonderful quality of life".Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:Suicide, depression, mental illness, alcoholism, female mortality, infant mortality, and what is happiness has been the issue since the dawn of civilization. It was way worse.El Gallo Blanco said:Suicide, depression, mental illness, drug addiction, marriage rates, general rates of happiness support this? Surely people are just as happy now, if not happier right? Healthier too, right?YellowPot_97 said:El Gallo Blanco said:I hear you, I just mean society in general...it will be unrecognizable from the awesome times most of us grew up in. Dystopian by comparison. Esp as the population continues to be dumbed down and AI takes over in the next decade or so.Sims said:We live in an incredibly peaceful time compared to historical norms. Maybe we are due for a reversion to the mean but humans can be incredibly dark and violence is the default trend.El Gallo Blanco said:
I hate our future. I weep for our young children and their children...but I have a feeling hardly any of them will have children.
Thankful to have been a child of the 80's and early 90's. We are headed in a dark direction.
We may SEE the violence with more frequency and detail but for most, that is a choice.
One of my favorite interactions between literary characters is between Frodo and Gandalf when Frodo is lamenting all the evil happening around them:Quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
There's an incredible amount of good in this world and it's something to be thankful for.
The child born ten years from now will never even get a slight taste of how awesome it was to grow up in the 70's, 80's or 90's. I hope I am wrong.
Said every generation since the beginning of time. It was always better "back in my day". Ol army been going to hell since 1877.
Don't be a drama queen. You live in the most peaceful time in human history. You're just getting older. You'll be fine. Your kids will be fine. Your grandkids will live in an even a better world than you grew up in.
No, it's the opposite. We are in an ugly adjustment phase that could last decades, if not more.
And I don't know about you, but my grandfather and father always talked about how much more brutal life was in their time. But maybe that was a good thing. People were happier and healthier. Families were stronger as well.
With regards to your bolded portion, no way in hell. But just curious...please define "better".
