What will people say about us 100 yrs from now?

I can’t believe they used computers! Lol….how primitive!

I don’t know.

What people?

“Back in the early 2000’s food, shelter, health care and education still cost money”.

For America: “What a bunch of lazy-ass slobs! Sitting around all day eating and watching that watchamacallit Television…

Sophisticated family.

My comment refers to the US. The majority of jobs required working 8–5 M-F. We used a lot of petro/gas. A large percentage of our food consumption came from boxes and cans. The majority of Americans had cell phones. Many Americans thought they were better than everyone else in the world. There was still a lot of religion, places of worship all over the place. There was open anti-Muslim rhetoric in the media. Politicians tried to convince the population that everyone has acces to healthcare in 2010, because they can walk into an ER and will be kept alive for that moment. America is a very giving nation. We still thought of ourselves in terms of black, white, Hispanic, and Other. College education left people in mega debt many times. People spent money they did not have, and so did the government. Family was highly valued for the most part. A small percentage of children walked to school. Indoor malls were seen as recreation for many teens. Everyone felt the need to have what everyone else has.

Fluther started a new movement to openly talk about issues and changed the world.

Whos bright idea was it to think of tweeting and how bored we must seem. Look at all the stupid crap people tweeted about. Really who cares if your getting your hair cut. Only your stylist cares and that because they are getting paid.

Ewwww. Their sanitary habits were appalling!

What….. people used to have to physically go OUT to work? How very odd!

One more. People shook hands with people they did not know in some cultures.

“Eeee Tiffany when I were a lass all we had was a plasma screen, internet,our bloody cell phones & a Ferrari parked in drive way.Folks these days don’t their born with their orgasm machine what’s it’s name & what not.

You mean the Earth used to be cooler? And Summer used to be Winter? Wow…

@BoBo1946 I didn’t have to wait 100 years for these style comments! The look on my kids faces when I broke out my old Techniques turntable and played a record was priceless!

Really, there were tree doctors? . . . I guess they went instinct together with the rest of the trees.

They were mighty, they were inventive, but they were primitive. They couldn’t even give their people health care. What barbarians.

“Wow, can you believe religious conservatives actually were in positions of power and responsibility?!”

There were over 6,800,000,000 people in the world?

I just can’t believe there were that many people.

They call driving a bunch of toy cars several hundred times around an oval raceway a sport? . . . and big corporations paid money to have their names imprinted on them? . . . . and people went out to see them and sniff their exhaust fumes?

… no wonder we’re f***ed up!

Loll…good stuff!

Soylent Green is People!

“so wait, their cars didn’t fly and actually used gas?”

@Blackberry “Wow, can you believe religious conservatives actually were in positions of power and responsibility?!”

GA!

thanks everyone

@njnyjobs It would be more like…“there were trees??”

@Cruiser wow, scary thought, but could be true!

“Boy oh boy, those people lived 100 years ago”

@Drawkward loll..wonder what the average life span will be then…wow…no telling

@BoBo1946 : At that point, technology should have advanced us all into permanent state of being.

Those poor folks had no belts and holes in their jeans.

What type of music is that? You wore that?

@shego: There is good music now. You just have to look for it.

@Drawkward I know that. I’m just saying. Every generation has good music, but there is always a time when we hear something our parents or grandparents listened to, and ask either in our heads or out loud ” you listened to that.”

LOOK AT THOSE THINGS THAT TEENAGE GIRLS WORE ON THEIR FEET? UGGS, THEY WERE CALLED I THINK? HOW LAUGHABLE!

I can’t believe people did not have anal probes.

That ChazMaz was such a dreamboat. Why wasn’t he ever officially considered royalty?

@deni – I love the new pic. ;-)

oooooooooooooooooooooooh thank you charlie

They would think (if they think at all) how incredibly optimistic you must have been to think that anyone would think anything of us in 100 years. What a charming and quaint notion! How sweet to expect to be recalled, considered or otherwise thought of so far in the future.

You, maybe. No one’s going to be thinking of me in 100 years.

@deni LOOK AT THOSE THINGS THAT TEENAGE GIRLS WORE ON THEIR FEET? UGGS, THEY WERE CALLED I THINK? HOW LAUGHABLE!

Best answer so far. (I hate those things!!)

“The Lunar colony could have started a lot sooner if that President hadn’t scrapped the Constellation program.”

@nullo ”... and likely sooner still if the government had just gotten out of ‘space exploration’ altogether fifty years earlier, and left the field open to others.”

I always joke about archeologists excavating mountains of cheap, cheesy import stuff like TJ Maxx & Ross & Marshalls!

Man..what a primitive culture they were! lololol

They won’t be able to think of much, because all of our data will go online in about 2050, only to be wiped out by an Iranian EMP in 2063.

@CyanoticWasp Nobody owns space exploration; the field has been open to the private sector the whole time.

No matter what happens. I hope that finally we are all wearing spandex body suits.

They actually used handfuls of wadded paper to wipe themselves….savages

@Ansible1 can you imagine that they used something as valuable as fresh water in their toilets! In their toilets! Imagine that!

will everyone be speaking Chinese

People will call them Neo-Victorian Slackers.

Why did America need more than 200 years to offer health insurance to everyone.

There was a time, we all had health insurance.

When we lived off the land. If you did not have the cash, a chicken would do.
Bartering was the norm.

@mattbrowne
Because a lot of Americans don’t want Bigger Government.
Because a lot of Americans don’t want to be forced to be generous.
Because a lot of Americans don’t want to support the indolent.
Because a lot of Americans don’t want to support illegal aliens.
Because a lot of Americans don’t want to fund abortions.
Because a lot of Americans don’t want rationed care. Don’t look at me like that, I know that they ration care under socialized medicine. A good friend of mine was denied treatment for her cancer because it returned after a period of remission, and now she’s dead.

@Nullo – How committed a lot of Americans you are referring to upholding core Christian values such as honesty, trust, respect, integrity, love, kindness, temperance and fairness?

@mattbrowne
How committed are they to Christian values? It varies. Not all of them are Christians, you see. Regrettable, I know. We’re working on it.

@Nullo – I wrote this in the other thread. I’m worried. Debate is good of course. Even heated debates are good. But there are limitations. Health insurance for everyone is going to cause Armageddon? Obama wants to pull the plug on grandma? Of course laws and bills can never be perfect, but often they are good enough or better than inactivity. Humans are never perfect. This includes lawmakers. But should this lead to such blatant hostility and hatred?

The American democracy used to be a role model for the rest of the world. Contemplating what seems to have happened to the political culture these days makes this more and more doubtful. Is this really what the United States of America stands for? Portraying political opponents as witch doctors or worse? I think there’s more at stake here than finding the best health care reform. And I’m not saying that the Democrats are flawless, but to me they seem to be more committed to upholding the core values of humanity which do include respect and solidarity. And they do not see their fellow Americans who support the Republicans (or Independents) as enemies. I have serious doubts whether the reverse is true as well.

Here’s a quote from Franz Neumann: “If the concepts enemy and fear constitute the energetic principles of politics, a democratic political system is impossible, whether the fear is produced from within or without. If freedom is absence of restraints, the restraints to be removed are many, but the psychological restraint of fear ranks first.”

See the other comments here http://www.fluther.com/disc/78391/frightening-gop-behavior-how-committed-is-the-republican-party-to/#quip1239233

@Nullo There are non-christians who live by “christian values.”

@JLeslie Certainly, there are. And there are those who do not. You can find both sorts among the ranks of the Tea Party.

@mattbrowne
Health insurance for everyone is going to cause Armageddon?
Hopefully not (though we are talking about messing with a full sixth of a fragile economy), but getting there could well cost us our Constitutional integrity and set unfortunate precedents. And we lose some of our freedoms: under the last bill that I looked at, everyone must pay into the system, even if they don’t want to use it, else be fined and/or get jail time. And we’ve basically nationalized yet another business, which makes government an even bigger, ever more intrusive part of life. Camel’s nose and all that.

The hostility arises from the fact that opposition is completely ignored. As of December 2009, more than half of the nation’s population wanted Congress to either change the bill or scrap it entirely, and they were ignored.
Ignored! By their elected representatives, no less. We actually had those same representatives telling dissenters to shut up and go home when they were confronted in the forum known as the Town Hall Meeting.
We are raised and educated to believe that we are central to the government. To suddenly have the government decide that it’s not answerable to you after all really puts people on edge.

Obama wants to pull the plug on grandma?
Simple, bitter economics. We don’t have the money to have universal care and high-quality care (heck, we don’t even have the money for just universal care; we’re borrowing oodles of money from places like China). Before, plug-pulling was the outcome of a harsh reality, mitigated in places by unexpected good fortune and generosity. Now, it’s going to be a soulless bureaucracy.

As I had hoped that I’d made clear a few posts back, there is indeed more at stake here than just healthcare.

they seem to be more committed to upholding the core values of humanity which do include respect and solidarity.
That is a well-practiced face, one that hides their eagerness to trample the individual and helps them to get elected.

And they do not see their fellow Americans who support the Republicans (or Independents) as enemies
Pardon me while I rotfl. Conservatives get all kinds of flak from the more liberal of the Democrats. You’ve never had them screaming obscenities at you, so maybe you don’t realize what they’re like. Zombietime (run by a Libertarian) catalogues things like Democrats in action. It’s bad enough that I had to learn to imitate them where I could in order to avoid trouble.

Lack of sensibility.
Lack of fraternity.
Lack of sense of history.
Lack of interest.
Lack of responsibility.
Lack of humanity.

@Nullo – How do you explain that companies like Mercedes, BMW, T-Mobile etc. still exist? That Germany as a country still exists? Everything should have disappeared as a result of Armageddon after Germany introduced a health care system many decades ago. A system that is very similar to what the Obama administration is implementing right now. Germany also faces the current severe economic crisis. So do Canada and the UK. All have experienced other crises in the past like in 1973. Health insurance is not making a crisis worse. On the contrary. It reassures people. It gives them the courage to overcome crises.

@mattbrowne
Was I talking about Germany? I don’t think that I was.

@DocteurAville
Lack of sensibility.
Power corrupts, right? Give a lot of people a lot of power, and?

Lack of fraternity.
I said forced to be generous. A lot of people are naturally very generous.

Lack of sense of history.
Beg pardon?

Lack of interest.
More like, “interest in upholding the law.”

Lack of responsibility.
No, see, it’s lack of responsibility that causes abortions in the first place.

Lack of humanity.
As if.

@Nullo – But that’s my point. You expect a disaster which won’t happen. And you do not have any explanation why Germany is not a failed country despite the fact it offers health insurance for everyone. Please, stop the fear mongering. I understand the wish of keeping the influence of any government to a minimum. But this should not result in demonizing the health care bill. What’s happening in the US right now is truly shocking.

@Nullo Regrettable that not everyone holds “Christian” values, or that not everyone is a Christian? I’d agree that we ought to work toward the former, although those values are not just “Christian.” The latter, however, I’d fight tooth and nail if anyone tried to implement.

I don’t get it. Now it turns out it is all Germany’s fault. Look, those folks over there are really traumatized for the fact they were suck in by a smartie pant who, burned the parliament; blamed and got rid of the opposition; exterminated millions; produced scientists that later on got a pardon to produce rockets, that in turn gave you one of your biggest prides: a man on the moon.

I have had friends from there that shared tears for it. People just like you and me, that wanted a better future for us all; people that wouldn’t make a distinction based on the color of you skin nor if you are or not a graduated with a ninety thousand dollars bill attached to it. At high APR.

The tale of the 1945 crusade we have been hearing since then is a result of exploitation by the commonwealth and its various parties, that, of course, wouldn’t and won’t —ever— let it go. As it will never go and now here we stand: You have forgotten what the last smartie pant has achieved; to own you American ass. They do and do and do do, eat, you brain, which is, no doubt about :

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Welcome to Fluther, dude.

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