Usually these make me feel old. This one doesn’t make me feel old. This one makes me have an existential crisis. Because 2100 sounds like it’s going to be filled with just this dark dystopia of hatred and anger.
And 1950 had racial lynchings, and Japanese-American citizens, who had full citizenship as a legal born citizen, had just gone through the past few recent years of being held in camps, and worked, in terrible conditions, all because their parents came from the wrong country. It had governments actively trying to brainwash their citizens into being patriotic and thus easier to control.
I look at the past, and look at the future, and it makes sense why we are where we are. This is what humans are. Humans are the worst people. It’s not going to get better. We’ve thrown shit at ourselves for so long that now we’re all a bit dirty and smelly. But also an elephant is trying to use your body as a poop knife, so it can break up the shit in it’s butthole, and take an even BIGGER shit on you. Like 80lbs of shit just falling on your head.
That’s where we are right now as a society, because we’ve paved the way to get here.
God damn. Mark Twain is over here talking about the internet. I started hearing about the internet when I was 13. So I can remember a world without the internet, but it still feels like it’s always been there. Same thing with CallerID. Imagine cell phones without callerID.
Hell for that matter, I can remember NOBODY having a cell phone. I remember car phones. A landline style phone installed INTO your car. But it still feels like cell phones have always been around.
Sadly, I remember a world before school shootings. Yeah, imagine if the whole year there were 0 school shootings. And 0 the year before that. And 0 the year before that. Then in 1998, Columbine happened. Those 4 kids were pussies! They claim they did it because they got bullied. I went to school in a place where on any day, for no reason at all, you could be in a fist fight. It was just a rough school, with a bunch of hormonal angry tough psychopaths. I’ve seen videos of them interviewing the survivors of Columbine. The impression that I got was that their bullies were rich preppy boys who tie their sweater around their waist because it might be a bit nippy on the golf coarse after school. If THAT guy can bully you, you deserve to be bullied. If those 4 kids at any time in their life had balls, and just punched a prep in the mouth? 27 kids would have lived to see 1999. Including themselves. And people say violence isn’t the answer…