When and how is it gonna happen? Societal collapse, nuclear war, asteroid impact, super volcano eruption? This anomaly know as civilization should not be able to sustain itself for too long before we give in to our tribal mindset. Having to work most of your life for people you don't care about, following the rules of people that don't even represent you and paying them a portion of your wealth.
The future seems very bleak. The apocalypse may result in the deaths of many of us, but the future bears a fate worse than death.
I hope we will see a major happening soon.
The Great Reset
A societal collapse folloed by a 70 year total war (without nukes) including every nation is kino end world, I hope to die charging listening to Tchaikovsky
I'm betting on the spread of tropical diseases to the developed world, driven by climate refugees from Africa and South Asia.
We are on a trajectory toward mass famine and possibly drought leading to it. Theres just too many people. This scenario likely could completely reshape our civilization.
Too many people or too many niggers?
We're all going to confuse ourselves to death. It'll be really fucking stupid.
In your scenario the nukes would eventually fly
Both sadly
Its not going to be some pin point grandiose event. It's going to be a slow and agonizing descent into feudalism. War, invasion, genocide, famine, illness. 100's of years of suffering placing us somewhere between the renaissance and the industrial revolution for 100's of years. And after that, the survivors will see hundreds of years of progress and advancement. They will far surpass us, and then, they too will fall. 2 steps forward, 1 step back. That is the course of civilization.
Checked. I can see a large scale world war happening when nations try to gather whatever resources they have to take over their neighbor's resources and land
Mass coronal ejection in 7 years, coupled with a super strong solar flare. Our ionosphere is gonna fry our communications and electronics. The sky will shine like white-hot fire and blind those arrogant enough to look.
You have the right idea, that it's not going to be this one event, but it will not take that long of a time. As soon as social cohesion is gone, and it's already gone, you will one day find yourself in accelerating decline. Most like there will not be a war. If we could balkanize it would be a good scenario. But I don't think we will. There will be another more brutal regime that will put a nail in the coffin of an empire. But this shit ends with economic collapse that most people will not even be surprised by. It's pretty standard way to go for any empire or successful organization. At some point the will to exist is lost. For countries it's best to fall apart, otherwise it is followed by a totalitarian regime that forces the losing side to abide by whoever starts the totalitarian phase. We'd be lucky if we can break up into more like minded territories, but it's just not the case.
Large nuclear exchanges are not likely because of MAD. An economic crash may trigger mass civil unrest and revolution. I think they probably have contingency plans for any economic collapse though. Coronal ejection taking out the satelites or the start of a new ice age would make things spicy. I keep feeling that the elites will ride everything out until they manage to implement total mind control over society using advanced AI though.
249,253,271 people in the United States alone live in an urban area and most of them will probably starve. There is no way the Earth can naturally support 7.7 billion people. We are relying on our technology to support us. When that fails, its over for most people
Darkness and starvation to start.
cosmic event is the most likely event. that's either a gamma ray burst from some distant star or an asteroid
Too much corporate greed and fuckery, you can fit every human on the planet in one county in Michigan, obviously not livable, but there is plenty if space, overpopulation is a meme, it's the greed that is fucking us, rise up and eat the rich
also this unfortunately.
rural folk will get to play zombie Apocalypse
Rollin' for some sort of sign
Not a bad argument but i would say it is a rather simplistic answer to OP. Mcdonalds and nike wont cause a major societal destructive event.
Even if overpopulation is a meme, continuing to overpopulate the world and turning it into Pajeet Land will create the worst dystonia ever. People will be seen as being cogs in a machine rather than humans
WW3 whenever it happens. Not even joking. It doesn't take many nukes to 1) create an artificial solar flare effect on all electronics, 2) create so many dust particles that the sun is "blocked out" for years, 3) create a mini ice age or "nuclear winter." It's quite an interesting subject and 90% of people will die at minimum from food shortages due to almost no operation technology and lack of sun and cold weather. Rest be assured once the nukes start flying between countries its over. You won't most likely be killed in the blasts, but you will shortly there after form it's effects outlined above.
Pajeets are happy, though. They don't feel like cogs in a machine. They, experience improvements in their lives. It's the collective West that has the third or by now even fourth generation experiencing drop in living standards. Pajeets and the people you think will cause dystopia don't see it this way. It's you who live in a diytopian future. The better question is what happens when there are several generations that don't experience improvements in their standard of living. It's not good.
>rise up and eat the competent
Biblical prophecy is happening. the Great Tribulation is approaching. we are watching the rise of the Great Whore (Catholic church), the Kings of the North (Russia) and East (China) beginning to mobilize for the Middle East. the world is being united in commerce, the West is weakening, and the EU is being shaped into the 10 Nation Federation spoken of in Revelation.
Repent. The night is coming when on man can work.
the next economic collapse will be a starter for the days to come
the supermarkets will stop selling, people will get desperate, the streets will become a very dangerous place to be. imagine venezeula but a million times worse. over time, society will slowly disintegrate into barbarism and feudal type systems.
we might be looking at 100-200 years of this type of life. it will be very hard. the modern man is not well adapted to survive on his own
Continuation of the steady decline. Covert cashflows can prop up the economy for decades to come sufficiently to prevent a total collapse. Though, its not as though another 2007 will be prevented. A little economic depression here and there is a great way to privately concentrate assets. The game is allowed to continue as long as long as the apical financial siphons & levers remain under ((control)).
Failing public libraries holdings are mostly bought by federal "preservation" program in exchange for funding modernization: library becomes a digital kiosk. Combination of legislation against fakenews/hatespeech/etc in concert with big data monolith internal policies ensures all peoples interface with history comes from few digital sources. ISP increasingly disuade / prevent end users from browsing 'unsafe' sites. All knowledge of history is concentrated & curated.
Technologically driven unemployment/obsolescence accelerates. 2020 marks initial rollout of occupation-replacement driverless vehicles. So begins the state by state legislative battles to try to soften impact to workers. Curiously the largest distributors seem exempt.
Universal Yangbux happens eventually in one form or another. Smooth initial adoption followed by rapid price increases across the board for necessities, particularly rent. Growing frustrations derailed by a crisis of sufficient scale to ramp up state involvement in citizen management. The second tier ratcheting of state involvement succeeds in worker re-entry / mobilization insofar as many people get to put a hand in the construction of high efficiency dense living structures & their support networks for the many. Some of the more technically inclined participate in development of more elaborate industrial structures located in points of interest & intersection for some future purpose...
Then comes the culling. A fatal disease with a long incubation period and high transmissibility spreads through the population.
Solar cycle 25.
>born too late to explore the world
>born too early to explore the stars
>born just in time to be comfy and shitpost while my future relatives must thrash about in the muck to survive
It all starts with a small gift of $1000/month
Cyberwar creating a huge disruption of the internet, leading to shortages of basic necessities like food and water leading directly to hot war followed by famine. After that populations will divide into city and rural, with the cities going mostly lawless and totally unrecoverable. Fiat money will be devalued, and society will swing back towards an agrarian way of life.