>the EU is collapsing
>the last US presidential race is about to be decided
>a new caliphate is forming
>space technology might make it possible to explore the final frontier in short order
Why do we live in an interesting time to be alive, my friends? Has the world spirit finally awoken after 40 years of slumber?
The time is here, boys! The happening is coming!
I didn't believe in The Happening before, but now I do. Now I see.
>>78409810
The Forces of History are powerful agents of change and destruction to the uninitiated. But we are initiated, aren't we Bruce....
>being a hegelian
Every time in which to be alive can be interesting.
What changed is that your perception of the Idea awakened in your consciousness
>>78409810
>Hegel
>not a total retard and walking equivocation fallacy
>>78411234
>>78409810
If we get a World War while I'm still of fighting age then this might just be the best Summer ever.
>EU collapsing
>The American Republic is falling with the rise of the American Empire
>Migrants flooding into Europe destabilizing it further
>Two growing superpowers bordering each other with tensions rising
>Plans to send people to Mars and commercialize space travel
>Russia developing teleportation
>South America in shambles
>Far right wing making a big comeback
Just remember not to make the same mistake during the Moorish invasion. Europe was divided and infighting allowing the shitskin horde to invade. Remember who your brothers are and defend the realm of kings.
Post your face being comfy at home away from the Eurocucks and Revolutionburgers, safe and sound snuggling your government mandated koala wife.
>>78411738
What have we done to deserve to live in such interesting times?
I pity the children of the 50s, Marxism was a shitty non-happening.
Imperium rising, boys.
We were born just in time to colonize mars, if you think about it. If you're 20~25 All you need is a good health and money when you reach 60 years old.
>>78412413
Oh and I forgot to add
>Spain threatening war over Gibraltar
>Turkish and Russian tensions are at an all time high and could fall into war
>Eastern Europe is rising while western Europe is in decline
>A major 1st world Western nation (Sweden) may collapse in the next 10 years
>the EU is collapsing
Hegel BTFO
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>>78412337
Can't do, sorry.
Here's my total financial collapse , bread riots, race/civil war and NATO bombing with a distinct possibility of Russian intervention face
>>78409810
>space technology might make it possible to explore the final frontier in short order
>>78411738
>Far right wing making a big comeback
There is literally nothing bad about this
>>78413397
I wasn't listing bad things just big events in world history also I'd put this on too
>Communism and socialism in full decline
Regardless of how it may look I'm almost certain in the next few decades the only communist or socialist nation left will be north korea. And I'm not counting European nations as socialist states. They have some socialistic tenancies but I wouldn't call them a full on socialist state
>>78412337
I'll be here laughing when you get cucked by a dropbear.
>>78417003
I would be okay with this.
>>78413386
While it's not as easy as it sounds, really all that would be needed would be to reduce the price of lifting a pound into orbit, and then the space industry would be booming
>>78417003
Thanks, Mr. Socrates.
We arent anywhere close to exploring much of space. To get anywhere we need relativistic speeds.
>>78409810
>sex robots and VR becoming a reality
>cyberkinetics and life extending medicine a possibility in our lifetime
>meme magic changes the world through the internet
WHAT A FUCKING TIME TO BE ALIVE BOYS!
>>78418068
It seems possible, at least in principle, to get to Mars without needing to massively advance our ability to get faster. It would be a long trip, sure, but people were fine with being on boats in the ocean for a month.
>>78411738
>>78413148
>>78414371
To add to my predictions I think as various systems fail or become unpopular I think we will also see the first ever digital direct democracy, probably somewhere in europe. And then I also think that fascism will start becoming more popular again as the memory of ww2 becomes more faint and people feel more anger towards socialism, capitalism and corporatism. People will start wanting 'strongmen' for their nations like in Russia, China and possibly the US.
>>78419131
Think about the fucking magic of it.
Used to take 3 months to get from one continent to the new world.
Going to take 3 months to get from the Earth to the new world.
MEIN GOTT ITS HAPPENING
>>78413008
I'm 30 can I make it?
>space technology might make it possible to explore the final frontier in short order
Not in our lifetime
>>78419626
No, sorry. Your kids can though
>>78417003
Thanks Mr. Socrates
>>78419626
You'll probably get to see it.
>>78411124
the dialectic is real
>>78417003
bring forth the philosopher, I am ready to debate!
>>78409810
>tfw the world will soon be united not under pacifistic globalism, but under martial imperialism
>Terra rises, the Imperium of Man awakes
>the stars are within our grasp, the infrastructure for private EO ventures is nearly in place
>with the private sector guided by the old public guard, space travel will begin to become cheaper
>the old administrations will be renewed, and grand colony ships will be wrought in our skies
>the lights of humanity will dance across Luna, Mars, and Titan.
>advancing computational, information, and communications technology is rapidly accelerating the pace of technological progress
>even if the singularity never happens and we never create a gAI, it doesn't matter; human ingenuity coupled with powerful sub-sentient computing will be more than enough
>indefinitely extended lifespans coupled with ethical eugenics and population control
>extremely efficient automation allows for a basic universal welfare to exist alongside a prosperous and industrious capitalist economy
>a new era of prosperity, civil duty, and virtuous civilization begins
NOT A SUNRISE, BUT A GALAXYRISE
>>78421353
Do not debate my friend, instead have a dialogue! Don't feel the need to be right, explore ideass instead.
"The unfairness of which I complain is that you do not distinguish between mere disputation and dialectic:
The disputer may trip up his opponent as often as he likes, and make fun; but the dialectician will be in earnest, and only correct his adversary when necessary, telling him the errors into which he has fallen through his own fault, or that of the company which he has previously kept.
If you do so, your adversary will lay the blame of his own confusion and perplexity on himself, and not on you; will follow and love you, and will hate himself, and escape from himself into philosophy, in order that he may become different from what he was. But the other mode of arguing, which is practised by the many, will have just the opposite effect upon him; and as he grows older, instead of turning philosopher, he will come to hate philosophy.
I would recommend you, therefore, as I said before, not to encourage yourself in this polemical and controversial temper, but to find out, in a friendly and congenial spirit, what we really mean when we say that all things are in motion, and that to every individual and state what appears, is.
In this manner you will consider whether knowledge and sensation are the same or different, but you will not argue, as you were just now doing, from the customary use of names and words, which the vulgar pervert in all sorts of ways, causing infinite perplexity to one another. Such, Theodorus, is the very slight help which I am able to offer to your old friend; had he been living, he would have helped himself in a far more gloriose style."
- Socrates, The Theaetetus
