Not as optimistic as you, but Gawd I hope you're right! One thing worth noting would be the coming tsunami of lawsuits against gender affirming care and surgery...
I would be delighted if only half of your predictions come true but I am afraid it’s all wishful thinking. The very institutions that are supposed to protect the values of our civilization are utterly corrupt and less than worthless. Have you seen recent stuff coming out of the American Bar Association, the American Medical Association, our most elite universities, the news media, Hollywood, etc., etc. etc. I’m afraid it’s too late.
1 year: All university sports teams are forced by Title IX to change their team colors to rainbow. The resulting confusion renders play nigh impossible. As such the players all kneel and stop playing, and everybody wins.
3 years: All cisgender heterosexual professors are fired unilaterally across all universities in America, including the still unaccredited UATX, under threat of hostile campus takeover under President John Fetterman and the newly established branch of the military, the "Woke Force"
10 years: All departments across all universities in the US are forced to become intersectional critical studies departments. Science no longer happens in the US. There occurs a mass expatriation of cisgender heterosexuals from the US.
30 years: Society has no need for universities any longer since there are an insufficient number of people of college age due to aforementioned exodus, the sharp uptick in abortions, and the lack of couples in a relationship biologically capable of bearing children.
I suggest you print it out on acid free archival paper, store it with your valued documents, or a time capsule, and enjoy it in 2052. These issues are very old, even timeless. We may not be talking about them in the same way in 2052, but they will still be with us, influencing us, and being analyzed.
If I step back 30 years, to 1992, the internet existed, sort of. I could send some text by email. Maybe even attach a file. We had 6250 bpi magnetic tapes, and 30 pound disks that held 100 MB. Around 1992 I wrote my PhD thesis on a laptop with a 20 line, 80-column monochrome LCD screen. And then the web browser (1995), the dot com financial boom and bust (2000), smart phones (2005), social media (2010), MeToo etc (2015), Pandemic (2020). Those dates are rough, from memory, i.e. inaccurate. One could propose other, different major influences.
Human history tends to be punctuated, like evolution.
I hope I get to live another 30 years. I expect we're in for surprises, some awful and some wonderful.
I will agree with those posting very pessimistic comments that things look VERY bad at the moment. The "rationalists" have lost control of the mainstream media for the most part, and entertainment, and almost 100% of education including grade schools, kindergartens, high schools, colleges, universities, graduate schools, law schools and medical schools. The internet is suffering all kinds of encroachment by the anti-truth brigade. Massive corporations are ignoring profits to push ideologies their customers loathe. Criminals are defined as victims and the victims of crime as oppressors. Competence and merit are discouraged. Large fractions of the youth are in favor of communism or totalitarian government and dictatorships. Fertility is falling, and young people are not dating. Some are considering outlawing heterosexual sex. Concentration camps for conservatives are ideas that are repeatedly floated as trial balloons. The US Constitution and laws in general are viewed as anachronisms.
In other words, we are in a shitload of trouble. I never expected to observe this in my lifetime. Never, ever.
We have suffered a sort of "soft cultural coup". We went to sleep one night in a reasonably sane world, and woke up to discover that all hell had broken loose. Different wokesters and wokerati competed with each other to see who could virtue signal better. All males were declared to be females and females were claimed to be males, and anyone who said there were any differences between the sexes was asking to be punished. Our media were littered with fake news and misinformation. Truth was branded as "misinformation" and subject to massive censorship.
So yes, things look pretty bad. But not all lawyers and judges and doctors have lost their minds; perhaps just most. The "silent majority" is slowly waking up to the brutal ugly reality. The pushback is starting. Lawsuits are being launched. Laws restricting the nonsense are being passed, at least in red states.
Even Fetterman, after he emerged from a couple of years in the booby hatch, has started to sound like a conservative. Fetterman has been "red-pilled", effectively, and he has said numerous times that the progressives are "nuts". Who would have predicted that just a couple of years ago?
About 65% of those currently serving in the US military would never recommend military service for any relatives. The recruiting of white males to the US military has plunged by over 50% in the last couple of years. Organizations are choking on DEI infighting and almost all productive work has ceased.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Just a couple of years ago, no one would speak out against woke ideas. Now more and more are doing so.
It was particularly valuable that the woke started to demand the summary execution of every single Jew on the planet. This was a huge eye-opener for many. What?
These people who claim to be "anti-fascists" are in fact the real fascists? They want to re-enact the Holocaust, which they claim never happened? And these are people on the LEFT of the political spectrum, not the crusty old white supremacists?
So it takes a while for Americans to wake up to the ugliness around them. But others have done so in various countries, like Italy and Sweden and Norway and Holland and Argentina and Finland. There are active movements against this nonsense in Germany and Spain and Poland and Ecuador and Brazil and Hungary. I think there is a chance that the US and Canada and Australia and the UK and New Zealand will get with the program and wake up to the reality.
Let's hope so, anyway.
I for one will continue to mount resistance against this mindless crap.
Not as optimistic as you, but Gawd I hope you're right! One thing worth noting would be the coming tsunami of lawsuits against gender affirming care and surgery...
I would be delighted if only half of your predictions come true but I am afraid it’s all wishful thinking. The very institutions that are supposed to protect the values of our civilization are utterly corrupt and less than worthless. Have you seen recent stuff coming out of the American Bar Association, the American Medical Association, our most elite universities, the news media, Hollywood, etc., etc. etc. I’m afraid it’s too late.
Would you like to write your own 1, 3, 10, and 30 years post? Please email it to me at dorian.abbot@gmail.com if so.
1 year: All university sports teams are forced by Title IX to change their team colors to rainbow. The resulting confusion renders play nigh impossible. As such the players all kneel and stop playing, and everybody wins.
3 years: All cisgender heterosexual professors are fired unilaterally across all universities in America, including the still unaccredited UATX, under threat of hostile campus takeover under President John Fetterman and the newly established branch of the military, the "Woke Force"
10 years: All departments across all universities in the US are forced to become intersectional critical studies departments. Science no longer happens in the US. There occurs a mass expatriation of cisgender heterosexuals from the US.
30 years: Society has no need for universities any longer since there are an insufficient number of people of college age due to aforementioned exodus, the sharp uptick in abortions, and the lack of couples in a relationship biologically capable of bearing children.
I hope your prediction are true Dorian
Daring essay. Kinda crazy too.
I suggest you print it out on acid free archival paper, store it with your valued documents, or a time capsule, and enjoy it in 2052. These issues are very old, even timeless. We may not be talking about them in the same way in 2052, but they will still be with us, influencing us, and being analyzed.
If I step back 30 years, to 1992, the internet existed, sort of. I could send some text by email. Maybe even attach a file. We had 6250 bpi magnetic tapes, and 30 pound disks that held 100 MB. Around 1992 I wrote my PhD thesis on a laptop with a 20 line, 80-column monochrome LCD screen. And then the web browser (1995), the dot com financial boom and bust (2000), smart phones (2005), social media (2010), MeToo etc (2015), Pandemic (2020). Those dates are rough, from memory, i.e. inaccurate. One could propose other, different major influences.
Human history tends to be punctuated, like evolution.
I hope I get to live another 30 years. I expect we're in for surprises, some awful and some wonderful.
Woah! I didn't realize we had a psychic on our hands! Can you use your crystal ball to predict the state of the climate too?
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
I like these predictions.
I will agree with those posting very pessimistic comments that things look VERY bad at the moment. The "rationalists" have lost control of the mainstream media for the most part, and entertainment, and almost 100% of education including grade schools, kindergartens, high schools, colleges, universities, graduate schools, law schools and medical schools. The internet is suffering all kinds of encroachment by the anti-truth brigade. Massive corporations are ignoring profits to push ideologies their customers loathe. Criminals are defined as victims and the victims of crime as oppressors. Competence and merit are discouraged. Large fractions of the youth are in favor of communism or totalitarian government and dictatorships. Fertility is falling, and young people are not dating. Some are considering outlawing heterosexual sex. Concentration camps for conservatives are ideas that are repeatedly floated as trial balloons. The US Constitution and laws in general are viewed as anachronisms.
In other words, we are in a shitload of trouble. I never expected to observe this in my lifetime. Never, ever.
We have suffered a sort of "soft cultural coup". We went to sleep one night in a reasonably sane world, and woke up to discover that all hell had broken loose. Different wokesters and wokerati competed with each other to see who could virtue signal better. All males were declared to be females and females were claimed to be males, and anyone who said there were any differences between the sexes was asking to be punished. Our media were littered with fake news and misinformation. Truth was branded as "misinformation" and subject to massive censorship.
So yes, things look pretty bad. But not all lawyers and judges and doctors have lost their minds; perhaps just most. The "silent majority" is slowly waking up to the brutal ugly reality. The pushback is starting. Lawsuits are being launched. Laws restricting the nonsense are being passed, at least in red states.
Even Fetterman, after he emerged from a couple of years in the booby hatch, has started to sound like a conservative. Fetterman has been "red-pilled", effectively, and he has said numerous times that the progressives are "nuts". Who would have predicted that just a couple of years ago?
About 65% of those currently serving in the US military would never recommend military service for any relatives. The recruiting of white males to the US military has plunged by over 50% in the last couple of years. Organizations are choking on DEI infighting and almost all productive work has ceased.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Just a couple of years ago, no one would speak out against woke ideas. Now more and more are doing so.
It was particularly valuable that the woke started to demand the summary execution of every single Jew on the planet. This was a huge eye-opener for many. What?
These people who claim to be "anti-fascists" are in fact the real fascists? They want to re-enact the Holocaust, which they claim never happened? And these are people on the LEFT of the political spectrum, not the crusty old white supremacists?
So it takes a while for Americans to wake up to the ugliness around them. But others have done so in various countries, like Italy and Sweden and Norway and Holland and Argentina and Finland. There are active movements against this nonsense in Germany and Spain and Poland and Ecuador and Brazil and Hungary. I think there is a chance that the US and Canada and Australia and the UK and New Zealand will get with the program and wake up to the reality.
Let's hope so, anyway.
I for one will continue to mount resistance against this mindless crap.