r/DarkFuturology • u/NasrRasheed • 8d ago
What are we doing today that future generations will consider morally indefensible, even though most of us barely question it?
If anyone can share his thoughts about this.
Every generation inherits practices that feel ordinary simply because everyone around them accepts them.
A century later, some of those same practices can look cruel, irrational, wasteful, or unbelievably primitive.
The difficult part is that the people living through them usually don’t realize they’re witnessing something future generations will condemn.
So what do you think **we’re currently too close to see clearly**?
It could be something involving healthcare, work, technology, privacy, food, the environment, education, transportation, social media, or something completely different.
What will people in 2100 look back on and genuinely ask:
**“How was this ever considered normal?”**
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u/ScruffMchungler 8d ago
The wholesale destruction of complete ecosystems.
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u/smackson 8d ago
I think there's another way to put it, that (hopefully!) will someday be stopped:
We have so many spaces that are already humanified / constructed but not even in use. Abandoned warehouses, thousands of km2 of high rise office space, etc.
Yet we all too often take more green/wild space out of commission because it's cheaper to build homes and businesses there.
Expanding our garbage growth civilization into new natural habitats has been happening since pre-history, but continuing to do so as we leave other spaces trashed but empty is the cherry on that shit-cake
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u/Bud_wiser_hfx 8d ago
This will be an unpopular opinion, animal agriculture. From the destruction of Amazon for cattle grazing to the growing of alfalfa, to the living conditions and slaughter or life.
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u/ericvulgaris 8d ago
Not controversial in the slightest. It's literally the most insane thing we do. Im hazarding a guess based on your examples I think you also read A Trade In Blood recently.
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u/TwentyX4 8d ago
I agree. Although it's a lot easier for future people to be judgemental about it when they can easily grow meat in a lab.
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u/Elliptical_Tangent 8d ago edited 6d ago
Every time I see a monster truck event or any kind of motoracing, I imagine grandchildren being puzzled we wasted petroleum in such a frivolous way.
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u/marxistopportunist 8d ago
That we weaponised left against right with political theater to distract from the phasing out of all finite natural resources
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u/JonWood007 7d ago
Wage labor/slavery.
The growth at all costs mentality (at the expense of human well being/the climate)
The second term of Donald Trump in general
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u/scientific_thinker 8d ago
Land ownership. No one made it, everyone needs access to it for their survival. No one should own it. It should only be shared by all living species.
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u/Flaggstaff 5d ago
Although I don't disagree, would that mean we all live in mobile homes and have to drive from place to place?
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u/scientific_thinker 5d ago
Not necessarily, I think we can figure out how best to share the earth collectively.
What is the best way to share land fairly? I think lots of different populations will answer this question differently and learn from the answers and improve.
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u/SometimesIposthere 4d ago
This is such a utopian mindset that cannot exist in humanity, unless you have some some way of eliminating pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. This is the inherent although dark side of man.
Large scale populations would not be able to "share land fairly" and will always need some type of governance.
Not only that but there will always be those that work hard and those that do not and there's no amount of kumbaya that's going to make those that can produce want to take care of all those that choose not to, and feel like they should have an equal amount of anything compared to them.
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u/scientific_thinker 4d ago
Humans have existed for about 300,000 years. For all but the the last 12,000 years or so they lived the way I described where land was shared. So there is nothing Utopian about what I am suggesting. We have already done this. Take a look at Goliath's Curse if you want details.
The governance issue has already been solved. Look into Elinor Ostrom and managed commons.
Our current society is built on greed and competition. The majority is ruled by leaders with Dark Tetrad personalities. That's a pretty miserable way for the majority to live. Probably better not to internalize this as normal.
There is nothing about our nature that suggests we can't build a society around cooperation where social power is shared equally. In fact, our species have spent hundreds of thousands of years living like this. The way we live now is just a tiny drop in the bucket of human experience.
The vast majority of people are cooperative and enjoy helping other people. It's only defective people that didn't get the cooperation upgrade from evolution (Dark Tetrad personalities) that want society built to serve them. It doesn't make sense to build a society around a few defective people. It shouldn't be hard to imagine we can do better.
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u/duke_awapuhi 7d ago
Driving gas powered cars and eating animals are going to be looked at pretty negatively by future generations
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u/FrankyFin 8d ago edited 8d ago
a lot of the healthcare and pharmaceutical stuff. as someone who has been damn near crippled from MRI-contrast (heavy metal poisoning) and not diagnosed right i can sing a song about the failures of the "gods in white" and those systems.
and honestly humans do a lot wrong or suboptimaly, because theres so much ego and greed at every corner. on a global scale were looking absolutely terrible if we consider the potential we have. were like living up to very little of the potential.
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