What will we be ashamed of in 100 years time?

Man's inhumanity to man. And 200 years from now. 

Building Sizewell C. Bringing back grammar schools and throwing kids on the scrap heap, if this ridiculous policy goes ahead. Leaving Europe. Not banning diesel cars. Plenty more I'm sure. 

What does the OP think we'll be ashamed of. Let's see something from you for a change; it's easy to ask the questions, harder to answer them. 

Hungryhalibut posted:

Building Sizewell C. Bringing back grammar schools and throwing kids on the scrap heap, if this ridiculous policy goes ahead. Leaving Europe. Not banning diesel cars. Plenty more I'm sure. 

What does the OP think we'll be ashamed of. Let's see something from you for a change; it's easy to ask the questions, harder to answer them. 

Yes, all that, and our spectacular inertia as far as the state of the environment is concerned.

The fact that we f***ed up the planet and were too late doing anything to try to slow it down.

Nothing at all, I'll be long dead.

Well, I (in bold) think...  factory farming is going to be one.  The endless suffering of livestock and the buffer we have not seeing it in supermarkets or restaurants.  It's the untold misery that most people do not see...

Surely my post being the first on this issue is quite telling!!

Our bodies ... we'll still have body image problems I expect!

To be honest if I'm around in 100 years time I hope there will be lots of things I'm ashamed off.  If I'm not then I'll have stopped having fun!

I don't think either of those answers are what you were looking for though!

Justin Bieber

OP's posts.

It strikes me that there are an alarming number of candidates. But probably the one thing that will be looked back on with confused amazement that we were so stupid is the environment, under which I'd include animal farming because it's so resource intensive. Might take more than 100 years though.

But on a different tack, I'm a big fan of radio comedy, and probably my favourite is Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore. And the question made me think of the following exchange, with its joyously withering response (withering responses are one of Finnemore's fortes):

CAROLYN: Oh, don’t tell me you’re a vegetarian?
HERC: I will tell you that because I am one.
WAITRESS: And for you, madam?
CAROLYN: That’s very disappointing. Why on Earth?
HERC: Carolyn, all through human history, we’ve been wrong about equality and we thought we were right. “All men are equal, except slaves, obviously.” “Oh, no, wait – all men are equal except black ones, obviously.” “No! No, wait – all people are equal except women, obviously.” Look, are you not at all curious about what we’re still getting wrong? And don’t you think there’s a good chance it’s “All lives are equal except animals, obviously”?
CAROLYN: That’s an eloquent argument.
HERC: Thank you.
CAROLYN: I mean, it’s childish, specious, and the bit where you compare animal rights with universal suffrage is frankly offensive, but it’s superficially eloquent.

WAITRESS: Shall I come back?

Spending silly amounts on HIFI and then spending silly amounts of time talking to strangers about it on online forums.

you mean, other than Trump?

Kevin-W posted:

I would have accepted "Allowing the pernicious rise of radical Islam in Europe" but this is a close second.

We're all doomed.

We have been since  evolving into a dependance on a consuming society/economy for our survival.

One day our resources will run out. At this rate it could be within 100 years.

And yes I'm as guilty as anyone.

Adam Zielinski posted:

OP's posts.

I take Adam's post as the smartest one.

It's a pointless question. Either Darwinist or a different kind of believer, we don't know where we are going. But that's also the beauty of the question.

I trust that the next generations will forgive our mistakes and will be the first generation doing so collectively.

Kyrie Eleison

That we've made no real progress since the last 100-year check-in. We flatter ourselves, but we haven't changed much. In the US we've spent three decades now cleaning up our environment by outsourcing our manufacturing to China and now we point fingers at what a polluter China is.

"Either Darwinist or a different kind of believer..."

Darwinism a religion?

Frenchnaim posted:

"Either Darwinist or a different kind of believer..."

Darwinism a religion?

Well, one could see so. When I read the posts above, I see quite some prophecies that this planet is going downwards, leaded by mankind into its victory.

The general assumption is that mankind has been evolved into its current superior / intelligent state.

I can't bring the fatalism of many newsitems reflected also in the posts above bring together with the progressional idea of Darwinism.

Therefore I'd like to promote Darwinism from cold science to religion because we hope for a better future but we know it isn't.

Or maybe we are afraid for a fatalistic future and know it's going to be better.

I don't know.

I trust the ones after us.

But it's hard to do so from the chaos in India.

Ardbeg10y posted:

Frenchnaim posted:

"Either Darwinist or a different kind of believer..."

Darwinism a religion?

Well, one could see so. When I read the posts above, I see quite some prophecies that this planet is going downwards, leaded by mankind into its victory.

The general assumption is that mankind has been evolved into its current superior / intelligent state.

I can't bring the fatalism of many newsitems reflected also in the posts above bring together with the progressional idea of Darwinism.

Therefore I'd like to promote Darwinism from cold science to religion because we hope for a better future but we know it isn't.

Or maybe we are afraid for a fatalistic future and know it's going to be better.

I don't know.

I trust the ones after us.

But it's hard to do so from the chaos in India.

But what's happening today, our reluctance to do anything about the real threats to our environment, has nothing to do with Darwinism, surely? Or perhaps it does : if anything, we are too intelligent, too "superior", for the good of our own species.

Small physical currency like 1p, 2p, 5p etc.   Having a big pocket of coins already feels like something from an antiquated age.

Having to stand there for 10 minutes while the Tesco cashier counts my big bag of coppers so I can buy some nice wine is shameful enough already.

Frenchnaim posted:

But what's happening today, our reluctance to do anything about the real threats to our environment, has nothing to do with Darwinism, surely? Or perhaps it does : if anything, we are too intelligent, too "superior", for the good of our own species.

I wish I could drop an evolution spell here in Hyderabad. I asked the taxidriver 3 times to bring me to the ***** hotel. I wrote it down on a paper. He said 'yes, yes, sir, airport'. I arrived at the airport. I - assumed to be intelligent - was indeed too reluctant to change the situation. Once arrived on the airport, I showed him the picture of the hotel on my pc. He finally started to whobble his head and 30 mins later I was at the hotel.

What a planet are we living on.

I need to learn a lot.