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

steddyeddy · 08-07-2017 05:15PM #1

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 · 08-07-2017 05:17PM

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 · 08-07-2017 05:17PM

Not allow people marry their pets!

Junkyard Tom · 08-07-2017 05:18PM

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

punisher5112 · 08-07-2017 05:18PM

People had to wipe their own a#s

Harry Palmr · 08-07-2017 05:18PM

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 · 08-07-2017 05:22PM

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 · 08-07-2017 05:24PM

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 · 08-07-2017 05:24PM

Work.

08-07-2017 05:25PM

Offos closing at 10pm

greencap · 08-07-2017 05:25PM

Not wear full face veils.

steddyeddy · 08-07-2017 05:27PM

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 · 08-07-2017 05:28PM

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 · 08-07-2017 05:28PM

Selfies.

State of yis.

RayM · 08-07-2017 05:29PM

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

greencap · 08-07-2017 05:29PM

_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 · 08-07-2017 05:31PM

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=- · 08-07-2017 05:32PM

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.

08-07-2017 05:33PM

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 · 08-07-2017 05:33PM

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 · 08-07-2017 05:41PM

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 · 08-07-2017 05:48PM

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

jaapbond · 08-07-2017 05:52PM

Eating meat ...

steddyeddy · 08-07-2017 05:53PM

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

bren2002 · 08-07-2017 05:57PM

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 · 08-07-2017 05:58PM

Ooh I've another one

Long haul economy travel

OldMrBrennan83 · 08-07-2017 05:58PM

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_Brian · 08-07-2017 06:06PM

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 · 08-07-2017 06:06PM

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 · 08-07-2017 06:15PM

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 · 08-07-2017 06:16PM

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

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

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