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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?

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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.

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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.

eviltwin

Smoking
Smacking children
Homophobia, sexism, racism

Sam Kade

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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.

Not another vegan :rolleyes:

Mutant z

How we sold our cultural identity down the river, all in the name of multiculturalism.

Sam Kade

KungPao wrote: »

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.

Will drugs be a thing of the past also in your outlook of the future?

conorhal

Sam Kade wrote: »

Not another vegan :rolleyes:

As something of a pessimist, I suspect that in a hundred years people will wonder at our aversion towards tasty human flesh as a great source of protein! I mean, who thinks a Mad Max future is a far more likely scenario the a Star Trek federation one?

Just me I guess...

Samaris

Trolling.

conorhal

Samaris wrote: »

Trolling.

Click here for 10 reasons why trolling will never go out of fashion! (and you won't believe number 5!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY

Also, clickbait. They will wonder at how that was a thing.

TheDavester

Deleted User wrote: »

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

Add Louise O Neill to that list

The 800 gender nonsense

TheDavester

How Al Porter and Ed Sheeran were "popular"

Junkyard Tom

conorhal wrote: »

Virtue signalling

There's one of those alarm bell terms and here's a guy that makes an utter fool out people who use it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAmM872874A