To wonder what happens in society now that will be frowned upon by our descendants

[Dylaninthemovies1]

There is lots of things our ancestors did in the past that we quite rightly think are morally reprehensible.

I’m wondering how history will judge us! What things will our descendants judge us for?

I’m thinking:
Destroying the environment
People in 3rd world country making our clothes for peanuts

Zoos, meat, renting conditions, building tiny flats and housing with no outside space, pets in cages, loans for degrees, shutting schools and playgrounds, men dressing up as women for entertainment, girls toys and boys toys, landfill, cheap flights, trawler fishing, fox hunting, pollution, exams for young children, toxic pesticides, rape conviction rates, pole dancing as a sport, high heels, fast food, religious schools, I'm sure there's lots more!

I think the way we treat cancer will be seen as absolutely barbaric.

Cancer will no longer be the threat it once was.

Everything that has happened so far this year. The wheels have well and truly fallen off this country. The place has become a joke.

Eating meat - I do eat meat myself, but part of me thinks that centuries down the line I will be on the wrong side of history here

Transphobia

There's a lot that should be but I wonder if it will be what we think.

E.g. equality for women, excellent plan but should have been done better or damaged two generations of children?

Some of the scientific progress, amazing steps forward or ruined the world?

Education for 3/4 yos. Freed women from poverty and gave opportunities to children who wouldn't have otherwise happened or...

I wonder how people will look back on care of the elderly too. I completely sympathise with people who "put gran in a home", in our busy lives there's little alternative and if there were it would fall to women, I'd do the same but....

None of these points express a view of mine btw, I just wonder how some of the things we're so sure are right now will be viewed in the future.

One that is my view is the way so many of us work so hard to fund "necessities" that weren't necessities at all only a short time ago, whilst complaining that we don't have time for the important things or can't afford to spend time with family. I'd like to think that will look ridiculous in the future.

Honestly? Right now I feel it's everything. The world is in chaos and nothing is going well. Nothing.

Billionaires

Social media, it will be seen as the highest form of narcissistic behaviour.

So much,

Taking women’s rights further back
The care of our elderly
The care of our children
The care of the earth itself
Throwaway culture
Ignoring 3rd world problems...

The list is endless

Why are you assuming the world is going to get better? I think we will be judged for letting women have any rights at all, the way things are going.

With the 'how we put our elderly people away in homes', I think it could go either way. They might be horrified that we didn't care for themselves in our own homes, but, as populations increase, they might equally be disgusted at the old folk for not 'doing the decent sustainable thing' and popping a death pill once they hit 50/60/70/80.

Along those lines, I think when they make their 'Acceptable in the 2010s/2020s' programmes, they'll include such (for then) 'morally outrageous' shows like 'XX Kids & Counting' and the various Channel 5 rip-offs tributes and watch them open-mouthed.

Not a judgement on anybody at all now - just the way I can see things going.

*horrified that we didn't care for themselves

that we didn't care for them ourselves

Yes to smoking. I am regularly astonished at how many people still do it, including young people who were brought up aware of the dangers. I also think (hope) people will be really shocked at the practice of throwing cigarette ends on the ground wherever one happens to be. Ditto dog fouling.

Ownership of multiple cars per family. Perhaps even car ownership full stop in urban areas.

Allowing children and young teens smartphones and social media (guilty as charged - on the smartphones anyway, albeit not until secondary age)

The shockingly wasteful use of plastic packaging.

Porn and its influence on young people's idea of normal.
Plastic packaging. Litter.
Binge drinking.
Factory farming and ultra cheap meat.
Rampant obesity.

‘Comedy’ regarding class -essentially laughing at the working class. Uncomfortable to watch now in programmes like the other one

Giving children puberty blockers
Allowing the erosion of hard fought for women's rights
And I wholeheartedly agree with the poster who said our barbaric treatment of cancer, it's all we have at the moment but hopefully in the future it will be a simple, easy, kind treatment.

Billionaires

I do hope that people will be rightly outraged at the fact that millions of people starved and were forced to drink filthy, toxic water from the river when there were others in the world who could have solved the problem at a stroke and, having done that, been left with 'only' a thousand times more money than they could ever possibly want or need to spend in their lifetimes rather than a million times as much.

Speaking of which, I wonder if they'll be amazed at how much a certain elderly lady who technically owns a sixth of the world's land area and has immeasurable wealth and international influence was exalted whilst doing nothing at all about the above situation, whilst remaining the worldwide head of the Anglican Church.

Cycling on pavements!

@OhioOhioOhio

Shutting the country down and fkng up the economy.

Going into lockdown far too late, against all evidence, so causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.

I think eating meat too and environmental stuff.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

With the 'how we put our elderly people away in homes', I think it could go either way. They might be horrified that we didn't care for themselves in our own homes, but, as populations increase, they might equally be disgusted at the old folk for not 'doing the decent sustainable thing' and popping a death pill once they hit 50/60/70/80.

Along those lines, I think when they make their 'Acceptable in the 2010s/2020s' programmes, they'll include such (for then) 'morally outrageous' shows like 'XX Kids & Counting' and the various Channel 5 rip-offs tributes and watch them open-mouthed.

Not a judgement on anybody at all now - just the way I can see things going.

Forcing old people and those with life limiting illnesses to go on living when they don't want to.

Not allowing people to make their own decision about whether a life is worth living or not.

I hope to fuck I am allowed to decide when I have had enough and it's time to go.

Brexit.

Voting Tory

The way things are going there might not be any descendants around to frown about our choices.