The New Decade: 2010!

which scene? or do you mean a scene so intensely boring it can't even think of a name - the "scene" scene

 

I think 2010 is going to look and be exactly like that movie Soylent Green only we'll have jet-packs and laser guns. Oh yea, and robots will have already replaced humans at 53% of the jobs across the globe.

 

You may be expecting rather a lot - it's only six months away

and we've been waiting for those jetpacks & laser guns for about fifty years so far........

 

you just wait man....It'll all happen in like November

 

why, if he does come your going somewhere way better than this shit-hole. Why would you not want him to come. That's kinda like being afraid of what you believe in. You want him to come, but after you've died of old age? I find A LOT of christians are like this. I don't get it. It contradicts your beliefs.

 

put a halt to. There is no end to life. The only thing that would be halted is your material world.

 

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I'm definitely hoping it will be a decade of art, music, and love haha. I would love to see new bands that have soul in their music. Although they could be out right now, but since the music industry is in the dump they just aren't being promoted very well.

 

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Hm. I don't think all rock sucks now. I think that some of the more progressive bands will take the attention of the new musicians as well as our culture in general.

And that could do a lot.

For instance, take a band like Tool. Listen to the music; it's intricate, very intelligent, and has some fascinting lyrical material which, to put it simply, encourages the exploration of consciousness, the acceptance of psychotropic substances as -potential- aids to spiritual growth (compare Third Eye to Rosetta Stoned) and generally has an optimistic look towards the society that we here envision, and a pessimistic look towards the direction in which society has been headed (Aenema).

I think they and those like them in other genres have music covered, but only if they can get more into the mainstream. Hopefully rap artists like Aesop Rock and Lupe Fiasco, and Blue Scholars amongst the more popular -good- rappers, will surface to the mainstream and trip minds, too.

Environmentally I feel that we are going in a pretty positive direction. The Kyoto protocol and agreements like it are helping, and although the ethanol rush failed new developments in solar energy should cover our energy problems pretty well. Farms are being built increasingly in multi-levelled buildings, providing more food with less environmental destruction. There haave been machines invented that return CO2 into its base elements.

Our biggest problem is clean water, and non-biodegradable / radioactive wastes. We need to focus on this as far as the environment goes.

New more direct foreign policies like Obama is proposing have the POTENTIAL to go a long way towards international peace. The key word is potential. A religious agreement MUST be made, and real information about the "enemy" must be spread instead of propaganda, and loaded terms like "the enemy" should be disposed of completely.

Marijuana must be legalized in order to attack other drug trades, and, through taxation, help get America out of the current situation, in which China has us by the balls. This will again involve a forced influx of REAL INFORMATION instead of television propaganda. Television itself should probably be "attacked" in order to improve its quality and information.

In 2012, people will freak out or something, and if something happens, it will probably be good because the whole Mayan Long-Count Calendar thing is stupid; calendars start over; it's pretty obvious that the world doesn't end every December 31st.

Above all, the future is really in our hands. The nicer we are, and the freer we are with our skilled services, material wealth, and general love and goodwill, the better a direction this next decade will go.

I hope the best for it, anyways.

 

But seriously, you guys... if you want it to be a decade of this that or the other, DO this that and the other thing, and shamelessly show everyone you know how amazing those things and lifestyles are.

 

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I don't know what religion I'd be affiliated with, but I was raised Christian, and it still seems a little odd to me. Don't you think that maybe God's hands are on everyone on the Earth, and that as long as we do the right thing for His plans, we will remain unchanged?

Anyways, I also don't know how much other countries will affect our style of life, except in a nuclear event... but I agree that the state of the world now kind of sucks and is going to cause some cultural backlash. I think it's more rational than idealistic to predict a return of hippy-esque living because of the combined "green" sentiment and the economic problems that the U.S. is facing, but that's mainly caused by the U.S. alone.

 

people will find out what the automobile has really been costing them.

they'll also find out that no ideology can bring peace, prosperity or freedom.

how dramatically the changes that occur will affect most people depends on too many divergent factors to accurately predict. that the three big ones will either occur the next decade or the one after, if they haven't already happened before the end of this one, is just about almost certain.

i'm looking forward, as always, to finding out what actually does happen.

i've got a pretty good idea what i'm expecting, but not really a very clear perspective on its timetable.

i expect a lot more people are going to be walking, and more interested in making places they have to walk nice, then maintaining paved highways that will become increasingly meaningless and useless to them.

i don't know if we'll get the resurgence in public transportation i'd like to see, what with governments collapsing and all. i think we may see a lot more of diversifying different places from each other. even fairly closely adjacent ones.

i think people may become more dependent on helping each other with local resourcefulness.

the existing world order will continue collapsing, but something wonderful so far hidden and mysterious will be growing up from the grass roots, which will at some point have outgrown today's familiar fanatacisms, to eventually much more and better then take its place.

when people really realize how much they're going to have to help each other in order to help themselves, and i believe conditions are going to force them to.

the soverignty of nations, however much and horrifically they try to fight it, is going to diminish. a new layer, a planetary layer, will be forming. at the same time a greater localism and diversity of localisms likely will as well.

the details of how all these things work themselves out, i mean that may be very different from one place to another too.

we have entered a very dynamic time with very little stability. we've already begun to see some of the dark sides of this, but there will be silver linings emerging as well.

 

The end of humans as we know them, that's for sure.

 

an end of some things humans have been comfortably taking for granted, yes.

an end to coercing each other into deceiving themselves may take a little longer, but is certainly devoutly to be wished.

 

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