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I stopped having that thought when I realised only thing I could see was war and servitude. These days I try not to think about the future. It was all very wel

I stopped having that thought when I realised only thing I could see was war and servitude. These days I try not to think about the future. It was all very well for Turner, he was painting from the vantage point of an empire on the ascendancy. Is anyone else here terrified by the feeling of geopolitics shifting under their feet? I think it's a bit too specific for a support group...

atrus 13y ago
So, all you see in the future is war and servitude...so you just try and forget about it? That is kinda worrying...
- JonnieCache 13y ago
  Well, I used to think about it a lot. I almost went mad (literally) just trying to grasp all the fractal layers of deceit that make up the modern world, let alone trying to change it. It got to the point that it started to jeopardise my work and therefore my ability to feed and clothe myself. Life is a lot better now. Hopefully in the near future when I've calmed down a bit, I'll be able to be more useful and work towards changing the path of the world, at least in some small way.
EthanHeilman 13y ago
The feeling of geopolitics shifting under my feet always cheers me up, it's one of the few things about the future that gives me hope. Yesterday's ash pile is today's hegemon. It adds long term fairness to the international system (every nation gets it's 15 minutes of power). The question is how long can this constant table turning last, it probably will not survive once 90% of the nations reach parity of development. What gives me nightmares is what a competent authoritarian state, corporation or network could do with present technology. Think Stalin with the capabilities of the NSA or Hitler with a first rate human genomics and sequencing program. Such a power could actually accomplish their insane ideas of racial (kill everyone that has these three SNPs) or ideological purity (kill everyone that thinks the government is doing a bad job).
- JonnieCache 13y ago
  >What gives me nightmares is what a competent authoritarian state, corporation or network could do with present technology This is what I'm actually talking about. Of course I don't begrudge china their time at the top (not that they haven't been there before...) but rather I'm scared by the uncertainty. Of course the future is uncertain by definition, but it particularly uncertain now. I'm not sure that even makes sense... As you can tell I'm very confused. This kind of rambling 24/7 in my head was basically what caused me to stop thinking about it.
smky80 13y ago
Any terror that was in me has been long since replaced with disgust for the populations of Useful Idiots and Defectors that made it all possible.

atrus 13y ago

So, all you see in the future is war and servitude...so you just try and forget about it? That is kinda worrying...

JonnieCache 13y ago
Well, I used to think about it a lot. I almost went mad (literally) just trying to grasp all the fractal layers of deceit that make up the modern world, let alone trying to change it. It got to the point that it started to jeopardise my work and therefore my ability to feed and clothe myself. Life is a lot better now. Hopefully in the near future when I've calmed down a bit, I'll be able to be more useful and work towards changing the path of the world, at least in some small way.

EthanHeilman 13y ago

The feeling of geopolitics shifting under my feet always cheers me up, it's one of the few things about the future that gives me hope. Yesterday's ash pile is today's hegemon. It adds long term fairness to the international system (every nation gets it's 15 minutes of power). The question is how long can this constant table turning last, it probably will not survive once 90% of the nations reach parity of development. What gives me nightmares is what a competent authoritarian state, corporation or network could do with present technology. Think Stalin with the capabilities of the NSA or Hitler with a first rate human genomics and sequencing program. Such a power could actually accomplish their insane ideas of racial (kill everyone that has these three SNPs) or ideological purity (kill everyone that thinks the government is doing a bad job).

JonnieCache 13y ago
>What gives me nightmares is what a competent authoritarian state, corporation or network could do with present technology This is what I'm actually talking about. Of course I don't begrudge china their time at the top (not that they haven't been there before...) but rather I'm scared by the uncertainty. Of course the future is uncertain by definition, but it particularly uncertain now. I'm not sure that even makes sense... As you can tell I'm very confused. This kind of rambling 24/7 in my head was basically what caused me to stop thinking about it.

smky80 13y ago

Any terror that was in me has been long since replaced with disgust for the populations of Useful Idiots and Defectors that made it all possible.