What things does society do now that will shock people in 100 years?

steddyeddy

I keep seeing these lists on Facebook like "ten shocking ways they treated (insert social, ethnic group here)" and I wonder what will be our shame. What will shock our great grandchildren about western society?

Samaris

The incredible wastefulness in our societies, especially regarding plastics, and the lack of regard for plastics and other rubbish ending up in the ocean.

freshpopcorn

Not allow people marry their pets!

Junkyard Tom

Medicating children who won't sit still for several hours a day 5 days a week.

punisher5112

People had to wipe their own a#s

Harry Palmr

Having blown 100m years worth of non-renewable fuel and raw material in 150 years should be a shocker but then I suppose people will see it coming!

Ironically, given the push for marriage on equality grounds, I suspect the notion of getting hitched will seem very quaint.

freshpopcorn

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Medicating children who won't sit still for several hours a day 5 days a week.

I think it might be the norm in 100 years!

Are Am Eye

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Having blown 100m years worth of non-renewable fuel and raw material in 150 years should be a shocker but then I suppose people will see it coming!

I suppose when it runs out, we'll have to go off and buy some more.

diomed

Work.

Offos closing at 10pm

greencap

Not wear full face veils.

steddyeddy

Samaris wrote: »

The incredible wastefulness in our societies, especially regarding plastics, and the lack of regard for plastics and other rubbish ending up in the ocean.

I'm working on that Sam!

_Brian

Waste, waste waste.

We pump oil out of the ground, make non recyclable plastic from it and then bury that in vast rubbish pits on the earth along with lots of other toxic stuff.

We really treat the earth like we have another chance when we spoil this one.

Barry Badrinath

Selfies.

State of yis.

RayM

People will be disgusted by our aversion to the three seashells method.

greencap

_Brian wrote: »

Waste, waste waste.

We pump oil out of the ground, make non recyclable plastic from it and then bury that in vast rubbish pits on the earth along with lots of other toxic stuff.

We really treat the earth like we have another chance when we spoil this one.

It fairly big in fairness.

Junkyard Tom

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I think it might be the norm in 100 years!

Hopefully not. It's very unnatural for small children to be required to sit still and behave themselves for hours on end - it's not unlike obedience training for dogs. The Japanese seem to be on the right track.

-=al=-

Pollution, waste, fossil fuels, not using renewable energy sooner, war, marriage, racism, religion, diets, school, and the 8 hour working day!

Top of my head + some stuff already said. It's a shame changing for the better and doing the right takes so long.

Harry Palmr

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Having blown 100m years worth of non-renewable fuel and raw material in 150 years should be a shocker but then I suppose people will see it coming!

When our energy-expensive lifestyles become impossible to sustain in the future our descendants will look back on us with disgust for blowing through our one-off energy boon. They will look on us with envy for getting to live in such naivity to believe that *we* could just burn through all the one-off, easily accessed, cheap, energy-dense fuels while having vague ideas that our descendants would live in a kind of sterile, futuristic world of "clean" energy.

They will also look at us with disgust for thinking we could each eat 80, 100, 120 kg plus of meat a year if we so pleased, especially those who eat high-meat diets for vanity purposes. Meat consumption per person will be forced to be lower in the future, unless conditions suffered by farm animals become even more inhumane.

freshpopcorn

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Hopefully not. It's very unnatural for small children to be required to sit still and behave themselves for hours on end - it's not unlike obedience training for dogs. The Japanese seem to be on the right track.

I know a good few teachers and if you suggested anything like this to them or slightly different they'd go nuts!

Junkyard Tom

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I know a good few teachers and if you suggested anything like this to them or slightly different they'd go nuts!

It's definitely not a popular opinion.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Factory farming will be viewed in the same way we view the slace trade.

jaapbond

Eating meat ...

steddyeddy

Will we be viewed negatively because of any form of -ism do you think?

bren2002

Transplants
Chemo
Mental health treatment
Lots of medical stuff I'd imagine.

Road deaths
The migrant crisis and how the poor are treated in general

bren2002

Ooh I've another one

Long haul economy travel

OldMrBrennan83

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_Brian

Baked Beans, at some stage the truth will come out that beans are the work of the devil and really are actually unfit for human consumption!

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Medicating children who won't sit still for several hours a day 5 days a week.

Very common complaint but what is the solution? The children that take medication are generally the children that need medication.

Samaris

steddyeddy wrote: »

I'm working on that Sam!

Ooh, you are? What's your area, if I can ask? I was recently reading about it again and the sheer amounts are mind-boggling.

racso1975

Revenge porn
Displaying stupid disks in your car
Cancer treatment and travelling yonks for it
The wages of sports stars
Prisons primarily still sloping out
Hopefully rape
Religions

Junkyard Tom

Big Pussy Bonpensiero wrote: »

Very common complaint but what is the solution?

Perhaps a more diverse education system that caters for kids with differing needs, temperaments, talents and intelligences?

The children that take medication are generally the children that need medication

See above and consider this.

racso1975

Oh and Louise o neill

KungPao

Hard to say, obviously, but I imagine that in 100 years alcohol will be viewed like smoking is now. Being drunk will be illegal, I doubt all alcohol would be, but heavily restricted and socially unacceptable to go on the piss like we do these days. No advertising of it either.

bren2002

racso1975 wrote: »

Displaying stupid disks in your car

These will be gone in 5 years. They're already gone in the UK.

NinetyTwoTeam

Publishing so much of our lives personal lives online

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Perhaps a more diverse education system that caters for kids with differing needs, temperaments, talents and intelligences?



See above and consider this.

You've a very simplistic view of the education system if that's your view. Education has changed massively over the past 20 years.

Your first video was about kindergarten, yet you're talking about an alternative to medicating kids (for adhd)? Kids under 7/8 would rarely find themselves sitting still for over an hour, at least not on the sense that you're suggesting. And I have never come across anyone under the age of 7 that has been medicating for adhd. It may happen, but it certainly is not the norm.

The fact of the matter is that we do have a diverse education system that caters for kids with differing needs, temperaments, talents and intelligences. The Irish education system is actually quite highly regarded internationally, which may disgust those of you who love to complain about it.

People judge the education system on their experiences, which is absolutely ludicrous. I don't know how old you are, but I know that education has changed hugely since you've gone to school.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

See above and consider this.

As for video, what he's suggesting has happened to a degree, and continues to happen. It might actually surprise you to hear, but there are hundreds, if not thousands of highly educated people in Ireland alone who have dedicated their lives to improvement of the Irish education system.

What you are suggesting isn't unpopular, isn't new and isn't shocking. Ideas like that have been around for donkey years, unfortunately the reality is that it is much easier to criticise something and highlight its flaws, than it is to offer a viable solution.

Tails142

I think we will look back at the direct provision centres much like the Magdalene laundries, many of them are in fact in the same buildings. People will wonder how it was let happen, were the general public aware of what happened.

They won't be able to comprehend the ewwww immigrants stigma/feeling.

Much of the anti immigrant notions of people fleeing war in syria/libya will be looked back on and people will wonder why wasn't more done to help. They will probably make films like schindler's list telling the stories of the few people that are helping now.

There will probably be tourist attractions in central Africa, much like the killing fields in cambodia, and just like there, people will visit and wonder why did the world let the genocide happen, why didn't any of the major world players step in to prevent it or help.

But we just bury our heads, close our front doors in the evening and try to get in with life as best we can and deal with our own problems, small in comparison

Noveight

I don't like to say it, but Irish being compulsory in both primary and secondary schools will be looked back on as being pointless.

Possibly not in the next 100 years, but eventually.

red ears

I think the whole political correctness hysteria will shock people when they learn of it. Especially the fear public figures have on saying anything negative about mass immigration.

freshpopcorn

We might have a repeal the 34th campaign!

Tails142

Sometimes I look up in the sky at planes and it strikes at just how mad the concept is. If energy becomes less available i think flight could be looked back on in awe.

We'll probably look back on people driving their own cars as something strange, I barely trust people to make my food, the idea of the government licencing them to control a 2 tonne lump of metal and travel at high speed in it will be looked back at as something strange and the number of road deaths as obscene. In the 70's there was about 600 people killed on the roads each year, we have that down to less than 200, I think with self driving cars it could become less than 10. It will become much more expensive to get insurance to drive yourself around and cheaper to let the computer drive, I think that is how the change will happen

I also think 240v electricity in the home is an odd concept. We aren't too bad with our three pin safety plugs but many other countries have much more lethal systems. There will be some change in electricity distribution, possibly to low voltage, that will make this lethal to health and total fire risk that we surround ourselves with seem absurd.

It might be that we're living in a nanny state but there is something about driving and electricity that if these concepts were invented today, I don't think they would ever be allowed become so mainstream because they pose such a health/safety risk

seanrambo87

Fairly obvious one but the interest based banking system that propels us further and further into debt and only serves the very few. Hopefully we can move to an interest free mathematically perfected economy but i doubt it.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Noveight wrote: »

I don't like to say it, but Irish being compulsory in both primary and secondary schools will be looked back on as being pointless.

Possibly not in the next 100 years, but eventually.

I would think the opposite tbh, it's a language intrinsically linked with our culture and heritage, and I personally think that as time goes on, especially in the whole "mutli-cultural" world where everyone and every place seems to becoming the same, people will be very appreciative that the Irish language has been kept alive.

Breda O'Brien, Una Mullaly, Oliver Callan getting paid to spread sh1te in the pages of the paper of record

Junkyard Tom

Big Pussy Bonpensiero wrote: »

The Irish education system is actually quite highly regarded internationally, which may disgust those of you who love to complain about it.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero wrote: »

the reality is that it is much easier to criticise something and highlight its flaws, than it is to offer a viable solution.

You seem to have gotten very defensive for some reason, relax. I'm not having a go at the Irish education system in particular but any education system that tries to be one-size-fits-all. I'm also concerned about the medicating of children to make them 'fit', there is a risk that it becomes more of a convenience than a necessity.

Kivaro

Without a doubt in 100 years from now (hopefully less) our descendants will be "aghast" at the notion that so many people were conned by organised religion. There is no excuse in modern times for people with access to verifiable information and knowledge to still continually believe in the archaic notion that there is a most merciful diety above us who demands complete devotion and praise and in return he/she will supply humanity with the most cruel evils imaginable like newborn babies with cancer.

Epicurus figured it out 300 years before the immaculate conception:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

looksee

I agree about cars, people will look back in amazement at people being allowed to control their own vehicles.

K.Flyer

In about 100 years I see smoking and alcohol consumption almost non-existent as its eventually realised the disastrous effects both have on society and the economy.

conorhal

racso1975 wrote: »

Revenge porn
Displaying stupid disks in your car
Cancer treatment and travelling yonks for it
The wages of sports stars
Prisons primarily still sloping out
Hopefully rape
Religions

Virtue signalling nonsense! In a hundred years people will definitely be baffled by that.