societal trends today that will be looked back on as strange decades from now

Facebook

 

Smoking cigarettes.

 

The high caffeine high sugar energy drink fad.

 

marriage

 

ending a nickname with "dog"

 

Probably much of what we do now would be viewed that way decades from now. If you consider the gains in technology in the last three decades most from that era are obsolete more than once over now.

We may be considered dinosaurs.

As far as trends, they are just that. We will probably go the way of the flappers....

 

The rise of nationalism in the U.S. in the years after the 9/11 incident and all the political and ideological support for the pro-war policies (yellow ribbons on cars, God Bless America tune, mainstream media in bed with the White House). It seems strange looking back on it even now.

 

It's not spelled "dog". It is spelled "dawg". Just sayin'.

I was going to say FaceBook but it would appear that a previous poster has mentioned that.

 

Absurd, mindless, ill-informed right wing hysteria hung over from the McArthy era.

 

The either/or debate will itself appear strange, if our species survives long enough to come to it's senses.