I think I'd cum if I stepped into that 2000's future. Place looks hella cool. 1950's future just looks like car dependent AI slop and 1980's future looks really bright and light polluting
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The 1970s and 80s sadly was the start of the apocalyptic shithole future. Look up cyberpunk. The 90s economic computer boom really lead to a lot of optimism, but that is long gone now.
(1953) The War of the Worlds
(1966) Fahrenheit 451
(1973) Soylent Green
(1984) 1984
(1999) Matrix
(2004) Children of Men
(2012) The Hunger Games
(1984) 1984
Thanks for the list, ChatGPT.
Also if you want to be an asshole, the title is Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Hmm, I think you've got a mistake in there bud. /s
It's a fair joke.
Last time the wealth disparity before rich and poor was anywhere close to current one, we call it "medieval dark ages".
Well, if we had risen up against the rich, instead of letting them rule the world at least the last image would have been avoided.
Keep dreaming m8
Educated people saw the 2020 vision as far back as 1950s. They warned us many times, but we never listened.
"we"
You mean the rich and powerful who could've solved the systemic environmental issues didn't, who got it told directly all the time. Who could've done something against Exxon and the others. Don't lump the masses together with such assholes.
There /is/ a large portion of the masses who are perfectly aligned with the goals of the rich and powerful and are happy to shit on their own doorstep for even a moment's convenience
Propaganda, indoctrination, and de-education, especially when applied over generations, are a hell of a force.
I mean 'we' as everyone collectively, as society. It's just manner of speaking. I wasn't even alive for most of the time frame mentioned, so I'm perfectly aware not everyone was actually able to 'listen' to the warnings.
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Elder millennial here. I knew I was in an earth destroying dystopia the entire time.
Yeah we grew up causing and then fixing an ozone hole.
Terminator (1984), Terminator 2 (1991), and The Matrix (1999) have entered the chat...
Don’t forget Mad Max
Mad Marx
Soylent Green. Alphaville. Logan's Run. A Clockwork Orange.
Planet of the Apes.
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The third, believe it or not, windows 95 desktop background.
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Understandable, but ysk that it is an illusion. You always think the past was better than it is now.
i mean, this mostly applies to american mindset. "work hard" is a function of progress; in the absence of progress, it stops making sense. and people who only knew how to work hard their entire life suddenly see that way of life ending.
there's a lot of americans who think that way. "work hard and you can make it". nah
a lot of people are realising that hard work != success. A lot of people are quiet quitting and other shit.
Quiet quitting fell out of favor when businesses simply started laying people off. Wild how that works.
i wish my personality let me do that. i'm kinda loud. i wrote a (bad) song about that stupid boss and played it at open mic night.
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