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I'm worried about the future.

Samflash3·10/3/2014, 12:14:10 AM·1 votes·503 views

What if 500 years from now, America states that the founding fathers weren't real? And believe me, that is bound to happen. The rate at which we forget things that has happened even when we have written proof is outstanding. What if the internet gets regarded as that old archive where drunken people just go and post stuff? What if the information posted online gets altered and keeps changing until there is no memory of the events that happened?

And no don't say that information can't be changed easily. With the way people can Photoshop, lie/ deny proofs, or even the cycle of life (people die in their graves and carry with them their information, people then dig up those grave sites in a few thousand years and try and summarize their life work by the things they were with (Anthropologists anyone) ). This is my major worry. In our quest to further improve, we ignore so much or so much vanishes. Information gets "updated".

But what can we do? The world is changing. The world won't stay the same. Ideas and ideals will be tossed out whether good or bad.

Today's ideal is religion and gay marriage. And no i'm not holding on to the past. I just find it remarkable how we're in the 21st century and all we can remember about what has happened over thousand of years is about how religion is the root of our problems and we would have been better if we didn't have it. We need to get off our high horse. If we have nothing better to do than to blame the past on the problems, what will our children of tomorrow say? That every problem can be atoned by blaming our father? That if we try our best and don't succeed, blame your elders? That the love our fathers have shown us can be clouded by the hatred they showed because it was them fighting for their beliefs?

We ourselves will pass on values that will pose problems as well as solutions for the future. What is classified as "right" in today's standards will be considered unfathomable in the near future (take gasoline cars). So why are we summarizing everything in the past as negative? Why?

6 Comments

BetaDude4010/3/2014, 12:26:55 AM2 votes

I'm surprised that this isn't another "bash Riot in the face for attempting something new" thread. I'll give you props for that.

I'm not entirely interested in world-ly situations though. Stuff like this happens every time there is change, and people want things to remain the same even though they can't. As for the founding fathers thing, that is highly unlikely to happen. I do not, in any way, support socialism/communism/whatever, but you can't go that far. If we can remember the earliest of Chinese and Roman Emperors, then we shouldn't have too much trouble remembering the founding fathers.

My philosophy is "I don't care what the hell you do or how you do it, just don't bring that shit into my house."

Although, remember, nothing lasts forever. I'm not saying that as "Anti-American", I'm saying that because that is a fundamental law of the universe. Everything, no matter what, ends. Even black holes can eventually evaporate and become nothing (Look up Hawking Radiation).

For now, however, enjoy life for what you have right now. And if you somehow get put into a time frame where one of those things ends, then you must learn to adapt. Or, like the founding fathers, fight for even more changes.

Colonel J10/3/2014, 12:27:12 AM1 votes

So why are we summarizing everything in the past as negative? Why?

We like to see history as a progression of the human race and never heading towards a negative direction.

Kats Pajamas10/3/2014, 12:27:45 AM1 votes

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