• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
    5·
    2 天前

    This one hits hard, not going to sugar coat it. Obviously the conversation doesn’t necessarily go exactly like that, but close enough for a meme.

    In my bunkty-two years on this fine planet, prior to this year, I have been called a communist exactly none times. All of a sudden, I went from mild mannered and hard working homosexual to world ending communist supreme in like a manner of a few months. If this pace keeps up, I may be the communist black hole that devours the entire universe by the time the USA’s midterm elections come in November.

    At one point I was out with a group that was bringing attention to the fact that the medicaid cuts resulting from the big beautiful bill are projected to bankrupt a rural hospital in my area. There were people out there screaming at us things like “how are we going to pay for it” and calling us “commies / communists”. And you can bet those willfully ignorant people are voters.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    581·
    3 天前

    I, gen-x, as a kid in the early eighties, imagined 2026 as either a post nuclear war apocalyptic wasteland like Mad Max, or a cyberpunk dystopia like Neuromancer, Cyberpunk 2020, or Bladerunner. One of those two came true.

    EDIT:

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      2 天前

      I disagree with that right-side graphic.

      I think that when measured by Quality of Life we have actually been going backwards since maybe 2 decades.

      Granted, I’m in Europe, so around here it’s pretty clear that the society-wide support structures built in the 60s in areas such as Education, Universal Healthcare, Public Transportation and Social Security are actively being destroyed.

      That said, even in the US you can see things like Equality of Opportunity completely reverse from reasonably equal to highly unequal (just look at the graphic of Social Mobility in the US in the past 50 years).

      In other words, even the highly individualist and quite asocial American Model of prosperity (“Anybody can become anything they want”) has been pretty much totally destroyed.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    18·
    3 天前

    History ended sometime around 1990. It was determined at that time that civilization could not substantially change any further, for better or worse. No Mad Max or Terminator dystopias, but also no Star Trek type societies in which both social systems and technology become highly advanced. No, just a Sisyphean nightmare in which nothing meaningfully changes and an infinite, perpetual constant is maintained and managed, forever and ever, until the heat death of the universe. Instead of either dystopia or utopia we have an ever present, oppressive malaise that only the sweet release of death can liberate us from.

    • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 天前

      Instead of either dystopia or utopia we have an ever present, oppressive malaise that only the sweet release of death can liberate us from.

      That sounds like a dystopia to me.

      • Sturgist@piefed.caEnglish
        6·
        3 天前

        Yeah, like if everything was kinda ok, and we weren’t slipping back into global fascism, but it was obvious we were just treading water as a species… that’d be middle ground. We’re definitely not on middle ground.

      • nobodysreadingthis@quokk.auEnglish
        5·
        3 天前

        No its great and of you don’t love it you’re a COMMUNIST which is the worst thing you can be and the police are on their way.

    • late_pessimistic@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      2 天前

      History ended sometime around 1990. It was determined at that time that civilization could not substantially change any further, for better or worse

      Life did get substantially worse since 1990 though?

      Mass surveillance, rise of tech billionaire class, unprecedented political polarization, KYC-rollout in banks.

      Ecological crisis is accelerating with tens of thousands of dead in Europe due to recent heatwaves.

      edit: also Germany, Japan, Russia and China openly remilitarizing after 80 years of relative peace. This is really bad.

    • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      3 天前

      Nah, we got a literary dystopia, just not one where everything is destroyed like your examples. We got the gilded cyberpunk future where everyone is tracked, privacy is dead and the lower class is held down by force. The biggest difference we have these days is that we went more heavy on AI than robotics, and the skies are a bit clearer.

      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 天前

        We’re actively doing CFCs 2.0 though so the skys being clear is going to be part of the curse before long.

  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 天前

    2026 isn’t over yet. At least we could start building that future. All it takes is starting to make steps towards it.

    • Abyssian@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
      12·
      2 天前

      I built one of these…

      Unfortunately the government seized it, bulldozed everything, and started building a data center.

      • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 天前

        It’s the attitude, not the bricks. If the government destroys it people can go elsewhere. The important part are the people who want to build a better future.

        • Abyssian@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
          61·
          2 天前

          Sure, but not many that also have the means to accomplish it. It’s sort of tough to build a better world when you’re stuck working for an evil corporation but would be homeless and starving if you as much as took a few days off to protest gunning random innocent people down in the streets.

          I don’t see a realistic way to get to that better world from where we’re standing that doesn’t first go through a lot of awful even worse than anything we see today, and very likely a lot of people being willing to die just in the hopes that it will make things better for people in the future but certainty that whether it does or not is something they’ll never see either way.

          • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 天前

            you’re stuck working for an evil corporation

            Once a future city is going, people can move there and find better work. The difficult part is to get it running.

            • Abyssian@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
              2·
              2 天前

              Yeah, funding is a major issue with most attempts at creating a utopian society. My plans for it involved somehow winning a lottery I didn’t buy a ticket for, having a mysterious and formerly unheard of relative die and for some unknown reason choose me to inherit their billions, or finding a genie lamp. No luck on any front so far, but maybe today will be the day.

              • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
                1·
                2 天前

                Funding makes it easier but also more difficult. In my opinion the biggest problem is finding the people who want to live in the future. With funding, people larp just to get some of the money. Without it there are only intrinsically motivated people who work together to create the funding. Finding them is what is needed to get going.

                • Abyssian@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
                  2·
                  2 天前

                  Most people like things like air conditioning, well cooked meals, and comfortable beds. It’s difficult to convince a group of people in 2026 to hike out into some seemingly unclaimed land where the environment is pretty much sure to be awful and start constructing huts and rebuilding society while living off the land.

  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
    71·
    3 天前

    Angry nerd neck beards aren’t really the archetype for those resistance to feeding babies or social programs…should be a rich woman wearing Gucci or something.