Agreed about the USA when they always say a “declining superpower”. It will always be a super power. The country is large and very fertile land blessed with natural resources with coasts into the worlds major oceans. To me it seemed to be having more issues in 1970s and 80s than now. The UK was a odd surprising mash up of good luck and skill to be the super power for as long as it was for such an isolated and small country. China has always been a world/super power most of human civilisation, it’s just got smashed to bits last 150 years and has finally picked itself up off the carpet. Russia will be back and will play the “third way” of the world between USA’s mindset and China’s. The EU if get together in a more federal manner will be the 4th power of the world
Being a doomer in the short term makes sense but since humanity made it through so many wars, plagues, and ecological crises we can probably survive anything. I’m optimistic in the long term.
@@takkorinus7909 sure. What is your point? Survivor bias literally applies here. "We have made it through so many wars, plagues ... that we can probably survive anything" "I survived russian roulette three times, I think I will keep playing, I don't think I can get hurt"
@@aldoushuxley5953 Too many of those "doomer" types whail and moan on how bad their life and life in general is, but try naught to make it better. Our reality is that we've survived being brought down in the couple of thousands and yet, were here. Is it bias? Surely. Does that negate our resilience. I don't think so.
@@takkorinus7909 How is that your impression of me though? I have done plenty to improve my life, and I am not complaining... Sure, humanity is very resiliant. As were many other species. I am not saying anything, other than that you can not rate our survival rate based on the events we survived so far. A book I can highly recommend on that subject is "the black swan" by Nassim Taleb
I’m sorry the fact that Brunner’s book has the character named “Obomi” as the first black president in the US actually makes me fucking think he was a yime traveler
He tried warning us but it turns out history is written in stone and corrected itself despite his changes to the timeline. What has been done cannot be undone, we must live through hell world, it turns out we can't get around it with a pro-gamer move.
"We wil see a Islamic caliphate. because enough people want it on the internet that they can coordinate and make it happen". Does that mean we will also see Yugoslavia 3 return of the tito? (Jk)
More likely than his Islamic caliphate defeating two nuclear armed states (Israel, Russia) and besting NATO which includes three nuclear armed states (USA, England and France). Maybe in a paradox video game. But in the real world Turks, Arabs, Kurds and Persians are at each others throats and no amount "everyone is a Muslim" handwaving will make them stop.
Since the time of St. Augustine, Christian theologians have been consistently asserting that "faith and reason" are not in competition. Thomas Aquinas established this for the Western Church. This led directly to the development of science and then the Industrial Revolution.
@@Tyler_W Shall we talk about the glut of rightist "economists" who somehow believe neo-liberalism, free markets and capitalism are good economic systems we should preserve? But no, mock progressive leftist economists who see a brighter future and have thoroughly educated solutions to how we can move forward and fix our awful economic problems caused by capitalism. Richard Wolf is a Harvard leftist economist and he's smarter than you ever will be.
@@neolink8197 from what I’ve gathered, he sees it as a relief because it shows that even poorer nations aren’t starving like they were in decades past. There are far more obese people worldwide than malnourished/starving people now. That is a win for humanity. But it also brings its own problems.
Well Mexico today is wealthier on a per capita basis than it was 70 years ago. It also has a much larger middle class. However I also have a theory on why the affliction skyrocketed--and not just in Mexico. Mexico used to import little beef from the U.S. compared to today (and the beef that was available was often expensive). U.S. beef often is produced from cattle given growth hormones to make them big fast. This stays in the meat. Mexico now imports large quantities of beef from the U.S. Note obesity afflicts both the U.S. and Mexico almost equally (though there are island countries in the Asia-Pacific ahead in this regard). As Mexico has gotten wealthier with more disposable income, meat, mainly beef consumption imported from the U.S. has increased as well. Finally Mexico today also has a much bigger industrialized food products market than it did 100 years ago when people in Mexico received all their nutritional needs from basic natively grown staples of beans, tortillas (nixtamalized corn), rice, squash, peppers, tomatoes, etc.
I think my main takeway from this thing is how throughout history whenever a trend takes place most people assume a given trend will last forever and laugh at those who say that it will stop.
Yes. Typical futuristic predictions are commonly based on a demographic and economic snapshot from the 50 or 60 and extrapolating the current growth rates into infinity. Particularly in older science fiction from the mid 20th century, you regularly encounter these futuristic human empires that have colonized hundreds of thousands of planets with populations in the hundreds of trillions. But it's now pretty certain that human population will peak at 10~ billion and then probably start to shrink down. It would take all of humanity to stick to a population control program that creates stable birth rates of 3 or 4 for hundreds or thousands of years. But why would any government want to have fast growing population for just a century? What would be the point? A lot of popular visions of the future are like this.
China's main propaganda point is that their growth will never stop, but that's a ridiculous point on face value on economic, demographic and historic terms. Basically everyone with brain realizes economic growth isn't forever
Hey Whatifalthist I just wanted to say I love your videos. I’m finally in college and a poli sci student and your videos really give me perspective and clarity. I’m writing my first attempt at political theory and it was inspire by you and common problems I see with historical perspective. I’m so happy more people are recognizing how awesome your channel is so I just want to say thank you for making such great videos.
@@SnowyButterfly1 he wants to become anonymous again. Even though that will be hard to accomplish, I imagine that even asking simple questions like this is prohibited under his code.
@@wizzotizzo yeah, I've heard. It's really unfortunate, unless you look at it from the perspective whatifalthist is looking at it from: world hunger is going down
And actually it is a huge problem as many people here are obese but in malnutrition. Mexico is #1 in hypertension worldwide and among the firsts in diabetes patients, but eating street food is so cheap, convenient and tasty that nobody will really bother to take care of their diet until they have to go to the ICU :(
so Mexico is now the most obese country in the world. Being even more obese than the United States. Mcdonald's is not a big reason why people are obese in Mexico.
wow, you summed up like 10000 hours of research into 25 minutes. this video answered so many questions and concerns ive thought about over the past couple of years, and put all the little individual ideas together into one big thing where it all connects and makes sense
I don't know, glowing rabbits have seriously improved my standard of living personally. I know hardly anyone who hasn't had their days brightened knowing that we now have glowing rabbits. Next we need pitless mangos.
No, what we need is Translucent Gerbils, that way we can have pets whose internal organs are always visible. I think it’ll give us a greater appreciation for life, being shown how fragile life is by taking care of them.
If anyone wants a genuinely shit century, may I direct you to the 14th? - The Black Death - The Mongols and the Golden Horde is still around - The Hundreds Year War - More civil wars with Byzantium
Being a doomer in a developing country with good prospects is really surreal for me. I can see the bright future for my country but also see the systematic problems that would fester and ruin it's society. Pointing these corruptions out with the hope to fix it early will be always met with shortsighted optimism and arguments like "But we are seeing fast growth so it's acceptable" or "We've got enough money to go around". Sometimes I just wish I was ignorant and just live my life happily till I die, leaving the shitshow to younger generations.
Isn't ignoring cultural or systematic problems because the future looks prosperous a baby boomer attitude? Rise above, fight to improve your country and drive change, at least that's what I do
Nah. That is a subtle God of the Gaps arguments. Science explains "how", hence forces, electricity, and types of organic chemistry reactions, along with "what", "when", and "why".
@Martin Luther There is such thing as the God of the gaps fallacy, in which the supernatural is used to answer questions yet answered about the natural world. Not all theists use this fallacy as the they only evoke religion on things not pertaining to the natural world. The only issue there is that the empirical evidence for the supernatural is lacking. What cannot be demonstrated with evidence (the Bible and anecdotes do not count) can be dismissed without evidence, though I am interested to read about the evidence you can provide. The fruits of a materialist and empirical mindsets have caused to scientific advancements that improved our standards faster than religion form the previous millennia (there are more advancements since the embracing David's Hume's writings on science than the previous 1,500 years).
@Martin Luther No. It is that if science has to answer we should accept "we don't know" instead of god. Science can only answer the falsifiable pertaining to observable reality. I am not saying science will answer anything. It is that if we don't answer, don't pull the "God did it" card.
@@SnowyButterfly1 Datamining is when you look through the data of a game to find things, such as weapons or characters that are upcoming, or unreleased content. Datamining could mean finding a future block in Minecraft, or a new fighter in Smash Bros
@@SnowyButterfly1 Datamining is when you look into a game's code. In this context it would mean that he's researching into god's creation (reality, much like how a developer creates games,) to come with worldly insight. I hope that cleared up any doubts. Peace and love. ✌♥🌎
Halloween Special Idea: What if a zombie Apocalypse actually happened in real life. Would the military actually be competent unlike the movies? How would it affect American culture or the culture of other countries? How could humanity bounce back? or some alien invasion... I dont know lol
Pmilitaries are wildly more efficient than in movies especially western armies. The reason the US lost in Afghanistan isnt cos the army was not any good it was because they were averse to losing life and werent in a full out war i.e. Not fighting wholeheartedly as in WW2 as it posed no threat to the US.
If its walking dead style, zeds will lose immediately cuz ffs anyone can kill a rotten corpse or just flee. If its World War Z kinda running zombies (zombie tower thing makes zero sense, just take the running aspect) it may get outta control but a lotta folks will survive in secure zones and they'll probably clean the world day by day securing it after a while. I dont think humanity will end or we'll lose control completely. Communication is fast asf so we'll hear about zombies by the time first person encounters one and survives and be sure that they exist by the time government decides its outta control or they infected a whole town or something.
Religion claims to bring answers, but they also come to the same logical brick wall that science does. You could say "what created the universe? It must have been God.", but then what/who created God? The answer to that is always "God created himself", which is almost as illogical as saying the universe was created from nothing. Both are equally illogical, and I think humanity might be permanently stuck in this logical paradox.
@@pizzatime2001 even if we are I’d like to think if they both worked together we could at least move forward rather than argue and stay stuck in the mud about it
@@hodo254 I hope so too. I think the religious question will always come down to personal opinion/belief, and humanity should be more concerned on how to coexist instead of forcing one answer.
Honestly I dislike it whenever people criticize your work with "Well you use maps so your just a map game larper" even though what your saying can be proven with a google search. Keep up the good work.
Calling him a ‘Larper’ is also just a blatantly inaccurate usage of the term too, as ‘LARP’ stands for ‘Live Action Role Play’. And there isn’t anything live action about this.
People that call him a larper are idiotic, but people that think of him as a prophet are fools too. Honestly, i kinda get why people that call him larper think of him that way, after all, he's the same guy that since Turkish nationalism is on the Rise and the middle eastern countries are unstable and weak, he thinks that in the span of a century a new gargantuan Ottoman empire will be reborn. Which is kind of ridicoulous obviously
"There is a theory which states that if the ultimate purpose of the Universe were ever discovered it would disappear and be immediately replaced by something even more inexplicable. There is a further theory which states that this has already happened." Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
@Are You Going To Do The 'Ora Ora' Thing? "haha but guys he didn't take into account that we could be hit by a meteor shower and be wiped out tonight xd"
@Aliyan ✪ Depends. He did a lot of shit mainly because he had a Stellar Education, and more than that he suck out knowledge. He even had Aristotle, THE Aristotle as his *personal tutor*. He was a fan of Diogenes, and even supposedly went to meet him in person. Alexander was also very ambitious, he really went big with his plans. He possibly killed his father to become king, and had the long-term vision of unifying Greece and Persia politically and culturally. If you want to have a big impact on the world, get good and aim high.
You underestimate Asian / Chinese social penchant for hive mind mentality. Classic liberalism is not a global phenomenon, despite how badly western postmodernists want to believe this. It is in fact a uniquely western invention with strong Christianity shaped roots.
Possibly. However, most social changes in society are driven by technological innovation disrupting old values and ways of doing things. While east Asia certainly has a great deal of cultural inertia for group centric thinking, having access to a free Internet might start breaking those values down over time as they are increasingly exposed to Western ideas.
@@randyjones3050 ideas change with tech, but if you assume that the inevitable conclusion of technological advancement is liberal democracy you’d be very wrong. The west seems far more prepared to slip into the Chinese model of information control and social engineering than the Chinese are to transition towards the liberal model.
@@shaunenwright7872 I don't believe that technology creates any "inevitable conclusions". It only creates changes. Different societies will react differently as individuals within each society seek to leverage new technologies to improve their own lives.
I think it's more seeing it from the broad lense of human history, where famine was common, families not being able to have even one square meal per day was the norm or families eating a very basic diet was the norm - which it was for most of human history. Compared to today - where you need to tell people to not stuff themselves with bad food but there is such an overabundance of food, that people don't even realise how blessed they are and eat like pigs
I find it highly doubt that life extension, specifically various methods of halting or reversing the aging process(actual immortality is something different and almost certainly impossible anyway) will actually be stopped by any taboo. Nobody actually wants to get older, and in my opinion aging will wind up being treated as a disease to be treated rather than an inevitable fact of life.
@@lukedrewry2816 That could easily be written up as a cope for the inevitabilty of death. Personally, I don't want immortality, for a lot of reasons, chief among them being I'm curious about what happens after death.
That perhaps may come true in the future, but at present, and in the first decades coming out of such an invention, we wont bd able to pchycologilcly comprehend it and will attempt to shut it out due to our lack of understanding, and therefore, fear, of it.
I like the general approach and perspective that this guy has for the future. My only observation is that at I think that when it comes to describing and understanding the third world, his perspective seems to fall into what anthropologists call underdifferentiation. This is, people from developed nations thinking about less developed countries as a single group, believing that they are more similar than they actually are, and that they respond to the same challenges, processes and problems, ignoring massive cultural differences that makes them completely unique from each other. Usually, this falls into an ethnocentric perspective, and it is the reason why most people in the 1940´s saw the same future for both China and India, because back then they were equally poor, underdeveloped and economically destroyed. But they ignored the factor that they both have a completely different and unique culture, having passed through very different historical process that even if at that moment had resulted on what seemed identical endings, they both had a completely separate intrinsic potential, hidden on what was apparent for most people in the developed world. They did not realize that China is not a country, it is a civilization, while India is hundreds of pieces of different puzzles that do not match with each other, but are sticked together with the force of power. It was not until the 60s, when the Western World realized how much different one was from each other and started thinking about China as something that could become a global power in the short term, and about India as a country that still needed a lot more time to develop a solid social, economic and cultural structure. Right now there could be developing countries that are already showing signals of the potential they have, but still, are being mostly ignored by people who think they are all the same. I´m not sure which one could be, maybe Indonesia, or perhaps Ethiopia, maybe Nigeria or even India after all. But one of them could be the next global power and threat to the status quo, and it seems like most people on the Western World, is not putting attention to this. PD: That map where Vietnam, Mongolia and Cambodia appeared as developed countries, but not Israel, the UAE or Singapore was super weird.
OMG, yes, thank you for speaking straight facts! As a Californian, i'm like this dudes gotta be a Boomer or a Canadian from British Colombia or Saskatchuan. But his perspective is like yup, we in the West and Europe will still be advanced and #1 for many years to come and China and Russia will have gone to shiza and oh yea Islam all unites and also Latin America. I can tell this dude hasn't done his research on the Americas and doesn't understand the complexities of Europe. One topic he did not discuss was the coming linguistic wars and lingustic evolutions , we are going to start seeing governments form and influence not by race but by language both online dialects and actual . One clear example is Mexico, I don't believe that Mexico will be a full spanish speaking country by 2040. I think, like the phiipines it will switch to being an English or Spaniglish speaking country, US influence is growing over there like crazy in Monterrey and Tijuana. I can go deeper, but the point is by 2040 Mexico will no longer be apart of the 'latin america' identity and will be sort of like Turkey < turkish not arab but still muslim>. Thats not even including the coming Nahuatl preservation efforts to potentially get a Central vs North conflict going. But South America is getting something similar and Argentina will play a major role in a shift up. The French language will start competing with English as Africas population booms. So we will see the French and Anglo sphere collide again. This might trigger something in Quebec. Theres a book Pontypool changes everything , where French Canada secceeds by using a lang virus ; its also seen in Metal Gear V w/ the vocal chord parasite. You will see maps change based on language. So India will be super divided , i'm not sure why he thinks all of india will remain the same for another 30 yeras, those rivers are drying up and we probably see some shi* pop off in India too. But that's just the military viewpoint of it. He never goes into Japans influence , and thats the biggest question mark. Of where their society heads next and how it changes for all of us.
Nigeria is more like India. Ethiopia is more like China. Its just that Nigeria has had more of a favourable start. I mean there was a major famine in Ethiopia in 1987, and I believe their last civil war ended in 1993. Although right now there is internal rebellion going on. Yet so far it has remained manageable. But the 2030s and 2040s will show things differently.
@@chibiromano5631 He also ignores the fact or he just might not know that the 3rd largest cyberspace is in the language of Farsi. After English & Chinese. He also seems to not know that if sea levels rise as predicted than that means more than half of the major cities and ports of the USA will have to be moved somewhere else by the end of the century. Now that is a colossal infrastructure undertaking which will cost tens of trillions of dollars. That alone will probably bring about the end of the USA republic. Not to mention due to diminishing oil reserves the petrodollar is increasingly no longer viable. Which means at some point within the next 2 decades or so hyperinflation will come to the USA. Which will create balkanization not just in the USA but the collective Western world.
"This is why totalitarianism almost always burns out quickly in that no one's smart enough to control an entire society from above" Except Paradox gamers
Paradox games are beyond unrealistic If a ruler had the balls, brains and guts to make a Secular Pro-Tech nation back in Imperator Rome the world would be in a much better place His nation would also be very powerful and rich
Sometimes I like to think about living on a corn farm on Mars with green energy and all my modern conveniences being made in 3d printer, working remotely with zoom, yet also being deeply religious traditional, and agricultural.
He also doesn't understand why corporations/companies exist. They exist for the same reason any groups form including historic empires, modern states, the evolution of our species, animal herds, multicellular life, & the planetary biosphere, because cooperation is advantageous when competing, especially when facing great outside pressure. The internet didn't change this, it didn't take too long for UA-camrs (an example of gig economy) to form "online content creator companies" like Machinima or IGN or Maker Studios or the Yogscast LLC, probably won't be long till smaller groupings like the Dream SMP do the same assuming it doesn't die off. (of course this isn't to say all modern corporations are good, according to Cultural Multilevel Selection (CMLS) theory: Competition between groups (up to whole societies) fosters within-group cooperation. Competition within groups (between their members) destroys cooperation. Modern corporations are plagued by within-group competition as CEOs cheat workers. As is the entire country & many countries around the globe today. Due to labor oversupply forces causing the wealth to go towards the top [As finding available workers is easy] & the overcompetition that follows as every individual tries to get rich & be elites as shown in "the Crisis of the 21st century")
0:00 Introduction 5:57 Greater wealth 10:17 Clash of civilisations 13:24 Humanity gains the power of gods and realises they don't want it 18:05 Populism and the internet
Grad student in historical theology here. Love the kudos to the entire field of theology at the end there. Just wanted to chip in that as far as techno-utopianism goes, The Fall of Adam is literally about grabbing the knowledge of God and having buyers remorse. The Tower of Babel shortly thereafter details how a promising new invention (the brick) isn't so great as everyone thought. Tech is great, but tends to create new issues or highlight old ones.
@@eax2010EA sure, all the time. This is not necessarily true only of theological texts/stories either: consider humpty-dumpty...is the point of the story to not do dumb things like sit on top of a tall wall (a practical, literal interpretation), or is it that some things, once broken, simply cannot be put back together again? Can it be both? Theology is a little different in that it presumes that God is involved somehow, and has packaged these stories/points/texts such as they are for a reason. For an ancient (2nd-3rd century CE), yet surprisingly modern Christian perspective on "layers" of interpretation, see the works of Origen of Alexandria.
@@scottgoodson1847 Thanks for the perspective. What do you think is the most sought after reason for belief in God? Does it change depending on the century?
@@eax2010EA That's going to vary a lot because by nature its a very personal pursuit; as a synergistic Christian, I would also state that I think God has to have a hand in the pursuit as well. If the question is more a direct "Scott, why do you think people believe in God?" I would spitball that (many) people believe because they want to. Even Nietzsche seems to have *wanted* to believe in God to some extent in order to make the world make sense. Without trying to be too dogmatic, I would say that regardless of century, many seek belief in God for the same reason; it makes the world make sense. Otherwise, one likely comes to a humanist or nihilist perspective. Nihilism is cogent (and if it weren't, it wouldn't care anyway lol), but even it's most ardent "believers" do not actually manage to live like nothing matters because it is (seemingly) so foreign to human existence. Even Diogenes, perhaps the poster boy of not giving a d@mn, wanted people to agree with him/see the truth in what he was saying (course he wasn't technically a nihilist, but you hopefully get the idea...people feel the need to live like things matter for some reason; God is perhaps the easiest [best?] answer).
@@nataliekennedy4646 yeaahh about that. we have one of the highest counts of covid cases ever in our country but government does not give a shit. people self quarantine. 12+ years old people get vaccinated anyways
@@jarrah580 nah. you see every other middle eastern country were divided even before outside intervention since they lacked national identity. Just look at the approval rates of the government at the coup attempt in 2016. Even if you support opposition, in dire times you will put your country first.
22:53 "Religion appeals to the masses and philosophies to the administrators" and the fact that religion will be the dominant one in a world of decentralized governments, and philosophy in a very bureaucratic and centralized world is a statement worth remembering for the future.
16:20 I would point out that there’s also an innate and animal fear of death, much more ingrained than the taboo against immortality. I seriously doubt people would choose to die outside their own terms of given the choice, regardless of the consequences or taboos.
I disagree, people in general don't fear death exactly. They fear an untimely death, in fact in extreme old age many people are ready for life to be over.
@@Prof.GoodFeels88 they are ready for life to be over as in old age they constantly suffer from their body failing them as well as often the mind, with modern tech we can see the aging slowed and i don't think someone with body of their 30s wanting to die beocuse they are over 100 years old
@@wires-sl7gs it is silly to say something so simplistic so definitively. That is a contributing factor sure, but there are several other factors some obvious and some hidden that contribute to this effect some far more important than the honestly insignificant factor you suggested as the preeminent reason. For example far more impactful on a person's readiness for death is having nothing to do anymore and having nothing left to give to the world. The idea that their ailments are the sole reason for older people being ready for death is just not even close to true. Not only is it not the only reason, I would argue it is only minimally a factor as people cling to survival under far worse conditions than an achy body. That is because the thing most important to human will to live is not the physical body, but the human spirit and hope for purpose and meaning.
Two things stuck out for me during this video. Both revolve around university: Due to the rise in tuition, a college degree will be a status symbol in itself. Then, those with college degrees will feel more empowered to feel like they should have the ability to make decisions that impact millions of other people. After all, they are "right" because they were to college.
" Then, those with college degrees will feel more empowered to feel like they should have the ability to make decisions that impact millions of other people." They already do. Seriously. And also, by college degrees, you talking all of'em, or the actual useful ones? And by useful, I don't mean ones like the Gender Studies 101 and such.
@@Rednecknerd_rob9634 even the useful degrees have tonnes of outdated garbage in them. Unless youre going to an elite university, your education will emphasise the ability to recite information from a book, wether its correct, outdated or illogical or not. Not actual problem solving.
Whatifalthist: "Everyone's going to end the 21st century significantly better than they started." Also whatifalthist: Shows map with collapsed Russia and Balkans under Turkish control.
@@haltdieklappe7972 face it; greece is no western country. Greece has much more in common with the middle east than western Europe. Trust me, I've been there.
I agree that the united islanmic caliphate will happen, but I don't see how it ever takes Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. I can atleast speak for Bulgaria, but we are taught from a young age that our greatest heroes fought turks/islam and with the current massive rise of nationalism we won't go down without a fight. I can see how all the muslims in Bulgaria are killed or relocated before we would go for another period as slaves. Greece is also way too proud of their "ancient helenic" origins so they wouldn't be likely to fall easily too.
More likely there will be more atheist or agnostic than Muslims in the middle East at the year 2100 as technology and knowledge spreads , I don't think having an United outdated Islamic caliphate is a good idea
Taking those countries probably wouldn't happen with out the EU ceasing to exist as a very meaningful agent anyway. It actually includes a mutual self defense clause after all, so if Turkey attacked them, they should in principle be required to come aid. And while admittedly some times nations might not really want to, the other hand here would be letting some one invade arbitrarily deep in to European areas while doing nothing, which sounds kind of Chamberlain like. So I don't think it's likely. Of course, Turkey would probably realize that as well, which would probably make it quite hesitant to attack unless it was really sure the defense clause wouldn't be honored. Something kind of hard to do with so many other members, plenty not always the most positive about them or authoritarian states. So yeah, I'm not seeing how it can happen either unless the EU ceases to exist.
@@bnmbg731 so it's better to have kids, while you cannot afford basic needs? And allowing overpopulation , running out of resources, basically making the earth as a living nightmare, while filled with people who praise and imaginary thing preached by an illiterate deceiver from 7th century Arabia. What could go wrong?
"That sounds entirely useless" this sounds like what my friends are always telling me when I'm rambling on about new IT stuff with narrow use applications. Made me laugh and also, another great video.
there have been plenty of things that sounded entirely useless across history. That is until you mix 3 of those useless ones and it goes boom and just discovered black powder. Still looks useless until someone else finds it in your shack and trows the packaged powder into the fire for disposal, making it the first IDE.
I am curious to see how a nation like Japan manages its population in the next 50 years. I feel like there will be a lot to learn from it for the rest of the world in the coming century. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
Stand on Zanzibar correction: If I recall correctly, president Obomi was the president of Beninia, not America, in the book, the US was ruled by a supercomputer in Washington.
21:15 I disagree. The internet makes every issue national or even global, making local politics a sideshow or even irrelevant. Then again, this may just be because the internet is controlled by a few large corporations operating out of a small geographic area.
@@comradefromtheunknownkatlo6957 Me? No, not really. I'm more of a politically homeless and disenchanted ex-conservative (well, conservative in the modern American sense) who nonetheless doesn't trust leftism, and has thus become centrist by default.
My biggest issue with this is that I’m fairly certain something’s gonna break at some point. There’s always some unforeseen event which will shake the basket in ways nobody sees coming. For example, in 2012, we were almost hit by a geomagnetic storm which would ha devastated the planet’s infrastructure.
We've found out logical thinking isn't the solution for everything a long time ago, that's why modern AI is much more focused on learning from good results than a priori heuristics.
What's worse though is that AI is dependent on priori heuristics as humans are responsible for data labeling and guided development which means that for AI as we design it now will be born with unintentional biases from humans.
The only difference is that modern AI learns the structure from below (from examples) and rationalism tries to approach it from above (using existing structures and theories). Science needs both.
@@sakakaka4064 Modern Ai doesn't even do that as they're statistical regression algorithms which by definition means that they're only able to perceive correlations in data sets and not causal relationships. It is fundamentally up to humans to asses the validity of its conclusions as we can't trust it on its own to come to the correct conclusions because of this
Just yesterday Greece and France agreed on mutual strategical defence outside of NATO, meaning an attack on Greece would mean an attack on France. I guess we have to see if that pact last till 2120, otherwise we can make another video saying the same stuff but for 2220, then 2320 and so on.
@@BuiltSimilarG So we really don't know. The EU does not have a unified foreign policy. it's one of the continent's biggest problems. Most EU countries believe that NATO is the cornerstone of their defense, but Turkey is a NATO country. The French-Greece deal shows the growing exasperation that those countries have with the rest of Europe for not taking their security issues serously. It's hard to say if this deal helps Europe gain a common foreign policy or it is another sign that the EU may buckle under its own contradictions.
France has never helped its allies it is using greece to prove something to NATO which is a super bad idea since actually only non eu countries can provide security in case of an attack to eu.
As a Brazilian living in the Southern region, the most interesting thing about your 2120 map is the independent Rio Grande do Sul with a chunk of Santa Catarina annexed.
“Economic growth” does not necessarily correlate to greater happiness as village farmers get shoved into Foxconn factories. Just because we have this measurement of economic growth does not mean things are getting “better” in the third world and I think that’s elided by a lot of this.
@@iminyourwalls8309 Someone working in a factory is not necessarily better than a village farmer. Farmers don't usually work 10-12 hour days, and have more time off during the off season. Also factory work can be much more dangerous, depending on the factory and the safety regulations. I mean, Foxconn employees weren't jumping to their deaths because they were so happy. "Economic growth" is a blunt instrument in terms of evaluating human happiness.
Here are some thoughts and questions I have about the video: 0:16 I still wonder how you came up with that map. 6:42 How are there so many obese people in the third world? Why does Venezuela have an obesity rate in the same range as the US and Canada? I also find it funny that Bosnia and Lithuania are the exceptions in their respective parts of Europe. I know this is all in 2014, but it's still strange. Libya is even more strange as their civil war started in 2011, yet the obesity rate is on par with their Middle Eastern counterparts. 6:54 Aside from people starving, how is obesity a good sign? 8:30 That trend also assumes that the luxury goods will be able to be produced sustainably and automation will continue its trend of killing some jobs while replacing them with others. 9:05 How are France and the UK projected to continue having rising populations when the other countries mentioned would have theirs decline? 17:50 How would you suppose people would return to a more primitive lifestyle with lots of technology being a thing? 21:35 I'm not sure why I thought that was funny, but it was. I bet many porn stars believe that it currently shouldn't be used as educational material on how to have sex, as there's still the fantasy element behind it. 23:50 I wonder how the rise of things like astrology due to the internet will change things. And one thing I find funny about some of the social sciences is that some of the early influential scientists in those fields were inspired by older fields of study that couldn't be scientific (e.g. Carl Jung using astrology as a basis for personality types, though there probably were other things he got inspiration from as well).
If I may venture to answer some of your questions.... Re: Obesity: Whatifalthist is using obesity as a proxy for each person receiving sufficient calories to not starve and this is accurate. However, simply because a person receives calories does not mean that they have a good or desirable diet and pointing out the presence of obesity being high in the third world has much more to do with the prevalence of sodas over contaminated drinking water than any nutritive value. Re: Automation: I believe that Whatifalthist wants to have his cake and eat it, too here. He argues that automation will not make significant leaps because AI is impractical, but argues that automation will get to the point where expensive items today will no longer be expensive. Automation will only be able to advance to the point where current luxuries are daily-use products if AI modifies our automation. Re: UK/France population: UK/FR are rising from immigration, not indigenous population growth. Also, note that the graph was from around 2010, so it was prior to Brexit, when the UK was sucking up European young talent like a sponge. Re: Primitive Lifestyle: I don't believe that Whatifalthist is genuinely saying that we would abandon all technology, but rather we would "de-urbanize" as a population and create small, bonded communities in rural areas that come together for communal feasts and rituals. Imagine something like hippie communes that don't reject capitalism. Re: Porn Education: Whatifalthist clearly does not understand porn or that industry at all (which is fine). Porn is as realistic a training for sex as James Bond is a realistic training for undercover work; it is a glamorous, unrealistic display designed to excite the watcher. I agree with him that porn viewership will become more normalized as time goes on, but it strikes me as something that will always carry a negative stigma despite being commonly accepted, like cigarettes. I don't believe anyone will see it as a general positive.
"How are there so many obese people in the third world?" The "third world" nomenclature here is a bit outdated since there are many countries, which might have previously fallen neatly into this category, that now increasingly suffer from health issues we would typically associate with more advanced economies as they progress in their development. A more helpful distinction here perhaps is "developing" vs "underdeveloped" or "low and middle income". In this case, many developing countries have been able to take advantage of increases in food production and more open trade deals to the point where lots of cheap, unhealthy foods are available at excess to the population. As this has one that's happened within a generation or less, it's presented a radical shift in diets for vast swathes of people and correspondingly manifested itself in heart disease being the number 1 cause of death in developing countries.
You know I feel like I’m one of the only people my age that has some sense of historical literacy, even in the academic setting, but then I see Whatifalthist go off.
2:54 as I Bangladeshi this so obvious. Of course it’s not Bangladesh! See those buildings in the background! You think Bangladesh can have such clean polished buildings?
I wouldn’t say that society becoming less sexually repressed would make people happier in the long run. Polygamy rarely works because it’s in human nature to be possessive and jealous when it comes to relationships.
I got in this massive comments section war with a bunch of XQc’s viewers on YT where most of them were saying it’s a good thing to have 50 sexual partners and I was one of the only people who was saying that it is a shitty way to live. Humans started practicing monogamy largely in part because universal polygamy would be disastrous for the social fabric of societies…paternity would constantly be in question, jealousy and infighting over relationships would be rampant, nobody would trust anyone to keep promises in business or the community if they were that characteristically fickle with their relationships, pursuit of short term gratification would mean nobody would get anything done. Yet all these online morons scoffed at this idea. I told them to go and practice that lifestyle if they wish, it’s a free country, but to see how fulfilled they feel in 30 years when they’re old and grey and nobody wants them anymore, and they won’t have formed any meaningful connections with partners. Some people just have to make the mistakes, can’t understand it’s a mistake until they’ve already lived through it and it’s too late.
I actually agree that most people think that way However, when I think of sexual liberation I figured it was more of a “You’re free to do whatever you want, WITH the other body(s) you are with”, which I believe would generally make some people more happy
@@kkonacreed8638 this actually reminded me of something wilt chamberlain said, he slept with a lot of women and it’s estimated to be as high as 20,000 yet he said this at toward the end of his life, “With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying."
@@Colddirector what would being “more open to sex” look like? It already seems like Western culture doesn’t just tolerate kinks, but goes out of its way to celebrate them. The natural progression from “sexual liberation/expression” and the West’s “sleeping around/free love” culture would be polyamory and possibly even bestiality and pedophilia if it gets pushed too far.
"I think everyone's going to end the 21st century significantly better off than how they started" *Shows a map, where my country has lost the majority of it's territory* Yeah... right
@@dexulescu Germany losing half of it's territory could be linked to the declining birthrate it has, while living standards go up that doesn't mean a guarantee that it will keep the same territory that it has. I think technological breakthroughs are a factor that should have more weight on the prediction of the future, and the shift from centralized workforces to more remote workforces, that it will be more evenly spread as people find their common ideas and groups along with our ability to move across the world more easily.
10:23 completely agree with what they say here. As a Chinese who isn’t really for either America or China entirely, I don’t think that China would be able to hold on with the amount of problems there are just hiding under the surface.
@@woetoe2535 I moved to the states when I was pretty young, so I'm actually more fluent in English. Still fluent enough in Chinese to keep up with things there though.
@@yin9647 Oh okay makes sense, do you still visit China from time to time? And if so how is it there? Im from the netherlands personally so i am kinda curious what its like there
@@woetoe2535 Even on usual years its pretty hard to visit bc we technically arent cn citizens anymore, so we'd have to use bribes and connections to get a visa every time. Haven't been able to visit China in a while because of the pandemic. The government uses the whole pandemic as a way to control the population more... A grandparent was having some serious medical issues and my parents were crushed by how none of our other family wanted us to come back since they all genuinely believed that its America and its bs freedom means that everyone here has covid and us visiting would make it worse for the family. kinda sucks ass rn
@@yin9647 Oh, im sorry for u. I hope he gets better! Thanks for answering, im european myself so i really dont get any insight on how chinese americans look upon things in the world. I hope that you can visit soon and that you can convince your family that we have no bad intentions towards them, but most importantly of all that your grandpa recovers :)
WW2 really messed up people's idea of war. I would strongly disagree that it's necessary to overturn political orders or whatever. It was necessary to defeat fascism, and will likely be necessary to defeat any similar future regime. But it's not something that needs to happen with any regularity or commonality. Look at the collapse of the USSR, which fell not because of military intervention but because of economic failure and disenchantment with the stagnant political order
No no I think what he meant is that perhaps wars exist for an (evolutionary) reason, and that it helps to restore balance and clarity to civilization (you need a winter in order to have a spring)
It's always fascinating to sit and listen to your videos despite you having no credentials in academics, despite such thing you gave profound wisdom to me and at such time thankful always to it. No amount of historian nor other likeminded people should belittle you in my opinion, you have made a analytical exhaustion of vocalizing your exposition and I'm always kin to listen since the beginning of discovering you. Once again kudos lad!
Keynes predicted 100 years ago that we'd be able to live lives of leisure and instead we just filled our time with more work - how can you be sure that won't just happen again?
@Nicolai Myshkin Good lord, is your entire point of commenting just to say "liberals bad" because I have seen you in multiple replies and you always take the opportunity to try to make the left look bad for any reason.
@Nicolai Myshkin Keynes is literally the only reason the Capitalist system didn't get overthrown in a bunch of Fascist and Communist revolutions following one of its gigantic spasms lol
Concerning AI. You absolutely underestimate it. I work in a politics faculty at a university and theres at least 5 Projects involving AI at my Faculty alone. One is even about prediction of international Conflicts through AI with a 98% accuracy rate. And this trend is all over all scientific fields and will continue to develop even further. A decade ago, the capabilities that todays neural networks could do, were unthinkable
@@SnowyButterfly1 🤦♂️ You should really read more Early Modern history. France was the most powerful militarized state on Earth for like 250-300 years.
The dude literally argues for a return to religion. How is that optimistic? Looking at the last 2000 years of Old World history that is one of the worst things to happen.
@「 Deadpoppin 」 Looking at the 2000 years of persecution of religious minorities, scamming, incitement of religious hatred, support for genocide and protection of pedophilia by the Catholic church and the literally hundreds of other crimes by other religions, I have to say I cannot follow your line of thinking. I mean seriously? How are we not better off without those organizations in your mind.
@@antigonostiggokarchedonios4788 Well the kingdoms, theocracies etc of the medieval world never did anything as bad as the holocaust or the holdomor so there's that.
@@jcc7912 True, science does not give one direct values, although I would argue we can infer successful ones by looking at values emerging in different cultures and how successful those cultures became on the world stage. A prime example for this would be the Golden Rule. However it also does not offer any mechanism for justification or absolution for such acts either nor those it have a priest class which can abuse their power over the people, which is a major plus in my opinion. I would honestly disagree with the notion that a pre-existing cultural value system is required to form morality. I have myself largely rejected the cultural values and morals that I have been raised with and socialized in and instead created my own, often in stark opposition to values within my cultural sphere. For example I disdain nepotism, while it is a fully accepted part of life in my home country. In turn, I also pick and choose from cultures I am exposed to, taking what I deem useful and discard what I deem not to be. If I can assemble my own values without the interference of some potentially criminal priest, why should not everybody else do the same. To quote a very clever video game writer:" There is book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the path. Choose your own."
16:33 This first point especially here in italy is completely right. Fields used to be mostly corn and grain (which was the preferred gathering spots for crickets and green Bedbugs), however now with presence of soy fields in the north, a new race of hyper agressive chinese Brown Bedbugs has effectively genocided the green ones and effectively make the fields a mass gathering for these little feckers.
I'm an Orthodox Christian and I will tell you that Jesus absolutely is against sexual perversions. My church has been unchanged for 2000 years and to think that Jesus Christ would be fine with abortion, homosexuality or pedophilia is ridiculous. We have a direct progression from the Apostles of Christ, we can even tell which apostle started which church. I understand why you may think this way if you're a Protestant, and this is a theological difference, but in this case you're asserting your personal view of Christianity (which is kind of the problem with Protestantism). To quickly debunk this idea that Christ is okay with perversions, or as you called it the lack of sexual repression, the New Testament does not exist without the Old. The whole idea of Christ is that He is mentioned in the Old Testament and fulfilled many prophecies from it, proving that Jesus was the Christ. And of course we know what Leviticus and Romans say about these things. Apart from this, the canon of the Bible comes from Orthodoxy, the very Bible you read is compiled by saints and the Ecumenical Councils from the Orthodox tradition. Without these you have no Bible. There is nothing more false than this idea that Christ was a liberal hippie who said we should all do what we want as long as we don't hurt other people.
These regions are only unstable because the states that once ruled them broke down, back when they were part of the Ottoman Empire these regions were stable. (Well, the Balkans is also unstable because of the clashes of civilization between Orthodox Christians & Muslims.)
@@fandomguy8025 Holding onto some of the world's most nationalistic countries has led to the collapse of the Ottomans in the first place. Unless the turks don't hold the Middle East and the Balkans under direct military control it will all implode, however overextending your army to this degree will cripple you economically which also leads to an implosion.
@@drgabe2908 No the collapse of the Ottomans was due to other forces, labor oversupply & elite overproduction that fed sectarian attitudes, like ethnic nationalism. The current nationalism of the Balkans, again, is due in part to such attitudes persisting but also the clash of religions that have fed them. There is nothing "inherently nationalistic" about the people here, nationalism rises due to reasons. If the Turks present themselves as defenders of Islam who will respect the people here there would be no need to use military coercion to unite with the Islamic parts of the Balkans. Of course, as historically, this would likely take major outside pressure to be achieved, which is why Pan-Islamic caliphate attitudes have risen in the region due to Western pressure. Corresponding with the postulates of Cultural Multilevel Selection (CMLS) theory: Competition between groups (up to whole societies) fosters within-group cooperation. Competition within groups (between their members) destroys cooperation. The clash of Civilizations is necessary to promote internal unity.
I feel the whole population decline thing looks way too much at education and not at additional factors that will invariably change when the population actually declines. Such as people no longer feeling the world is too full already, and possibly being able to use their additional leisure time to actually have and raise kids.
I don't think that would be a major factor as I don't think "People thinking the world is too full" is a factor in why populations decline, it's simply that they don't need to have as many kids when you're kids don't die of disease often.
The Elite, who are the controlling manipulators, will head to their bunkers in the not too distant future, leaving the rest to fend for themselves as the next Ice Age descends at rapid speed across the northern hemisphere, slower across the southern, with the equatorial region much cooler, but escaping ice & snow.
@@alancharlton7892 sooooooooo is there an _actual problem_ somewhere in your whole blurb? Asking as someone who actively longs for a "Faro Plague" type scenario... And no, "hurr-durr big eco-tawk on kompooter" counts as neither problem _nor_ point.
"Have a single encompassing worldview, that of Reaganite Capitism combined with Social Justice" God that's depressing. We live in a world dominated by 2 of the worst ideologies ever.
Richard D. Wolff, Paul Cockshott, Michael Parenti, Yanis Varoufakis, and especially the millions members of communist parties are not going to become "gone" (in terms of being taken seriously by literally anyone) soon.
@@jstevinik3261 Maybe, but de facto 95 % of the world is capitalist. Few exceptions exist like North Korea, which is, whatever one can even call them, the major distinctions are social democracy-conservative liberalism-authoritarian capitalism. Why do you think communism will arise again?
@@lilemont9302 Becuase of automation displacing working class peopele in which UBI wpuld be semi-inflationary and not enough to lice in some already expensive areas, climate change questioning modes of production needing constant growth, though centuries later but leveling of population would be detremental to economic need for an ever exanding consumer base Also, Russia and some eastern European countries barely recovered from declines in qaulity life that began in the 1990s.
@@lilemont9302 Capitalism is great when trying to get to a post industrial economy due to its focus on short term growth, but if we want any sort of longevity this short term focus is just going to use up our resources. I don't know about communism, but a socialist economy would be ideal for an automated society because of its long term focus.
The correct phrasing would be "everyone who thinks that planned economies lead to more prosperity than market economies will be gone". Capitalism is such a vague word that covers many more aspects than simply "market economy". Market economies don't have to be systems designed to channel wealth from the poor to the rich.
Speaking of social engineering, I'd love to hear your views on the USA's legally imposed suburbanisation - where single family homes are not only the norm, but usually the only thing you're allowed to build
@@ling636 it is cause fuck you that's why. But no seriously in America the political divide and western entitlement is so great that such a system is unfeasible except for being in a really small and close knit community that is heavily selective on who gets to move in. Don't know how it's "legally imposed" but that's my reason for why it still exists as the standard. Also it's to make urban developers more money. Can't have people joining together for one house when we can force them into 2
@@hirokasonova7059 it's legally imposed because most cities' planning regulations only permit the construction of single family houses. Even if you want to, you're not allowed to build anything else.
It's looks so much more pacific and comfortable, humans are desert animals, we need a certain distance between each other or families and we stress too much on high density homes.
The fact that this guy can be the 21st century Nostradamus and I'm watching him for entertainment really shows the industrial revolution and it's consequences...
Even though I write short stories about humanity ending in calamity, I can't help but remind myself that we've survived multiple Ice Ages, an epic societal collapse, the fall of multiple centralized empires, brutal global wars and seemingly apocalyptical level natural disasters. If one thinks we can't tough it out through thermal nuclear war or possibly another ice age from climate change, I gotta say, they don't do their research.
There is one thing to mention. Since the capitalist system needs wage labour to perpetuate it's existence, and a future world will eventually give up the current neo-ludditism that we have currently and instead accept it, something has to change. There simply won't be enough workers, as all the medial jobs will be cheaper to automate than pay human labour for, and I don't think the creative sectors will provide the jobs to balance that out. Thus such a world will go one of two ways: 1. The welfare state gets so big that capitalism fades out of existence because it is no longer necessary in this type of a world, or 2, it doesn't, and since jobs don't exist and people are still put onto positions of needing them, this turns into a dystopia, where capitalism turns to its authoritarian brother, Fascism, which works to distract Capitalism's faults away from itself and towards racial or social issues instead. I think once countries start accepting this transition and establishing decent UBI programmes, indicates the transition away from capitalism. People have been questioning their purpose for their work recently. We witnessed the Great Resignation this year, so I think people will embrace the new system once it's there, but currently are still instinctively against it at the moment. When people have less stressful lives, their health improves a lot directly from less stress related illnesses and indirectly, since they don't need to use the coping mechanisms that come with having stress. Capitalism was an improvement from feudalism, but it is by no means the best socioeconomic system we can have. I think as jobs become more scarce due to the economic incentives to automate jobs, I think people will come to a realisation that a new system is needed. Capitalism's last gasp will either be in the form of a social democratic welfare state, or a fascist state.
I watch your videos all the time whenever I’m having a bad day I’ll go back and watch one of your old videos. I honestly hope you can revisit some of them eventually with your new style
You watch his videos when you're having a bad day in order to have a good day? He's honestly more optimistic than I can be un some respects, but as wouldn't exactly consider his videos something to go to for a pick me up. If anything, they remind me that the future is probably gonna suck, but it probably won't completely suck and might potentially be kinda cool and tolerable in some respects for anyone who manages to survive long enough to appreciate the benefits...
Unless you're talking about his actual alternate history videos. Those do put a smile on my face. I also just like maps, so I think of his alt-history maps like a game of what if stratego or risk.
I sorta agree with your trends. Here are mine: 1 - "fall of the mainstream/mainstreet/wallstreet" people will move out of great centers to the rural areas for cheep land, starting with those who can work from distance and then attracting those in the service industry that can't. Same will happen with arts and culture. People will coalesce over very small, solid and simple principles over very large areas, maybe even globally, but will be mostly tolerant of almost everything else, for business, meaning and boredom sake. That in turn will keep draining the energy out of mainstream forces that attempt to exploit that need for unity. The centralizing forces that survive will be the ones that facilitate that instead of trying to control it. 2 - Meaning, art, human connections in the most superficial way will take the place or organized religions, out with the traditional priest, imam, and in with the religious influencer. People won't follow a unifying teaching anymore and instead distil religion, meaning and awe from parasocial relationships with philosophers of disparate schools. The job of the local pastor will be to cater to so many different people in their need for worship. It's likely that heated debate will start being seen as a form of worship unto itself, or as a substitute for sermons. Playing nice while disagreeing will be a bigger value than dogma. 3 - Nation states as we know them will not be a thing, boarders will still exist, but parallel legal structures resembling city states will start becoming the norm, a sort of uber federalism. And such loyalties might be extra national. Gated communities will evolve into free market communes, each of them formed and united by their own way of life, likely forming and dissolving on their own due to environmental pressures. Contracts will take quasi religious significance. Due to labor needs, such communities will likely be forced to have separated quarters for outsiders and eventually there will be a such "nomad generation". 4 - Almost all religions will go through a petersonian transformation, as they all go through a globalization phase in the way protestantism did. This will actually help major religions to stop hemorrhaging their flock, but will turn almost all major religions into an incomprehensible mess. Dogmatic communes might still exist, a-la the amish, but participation will be voluntary, with the worst punishments for breaking dogma being "exile", even in fundamentalist muslim communities. Gone will be the days of sanctioned religious killings for dogma breaking, specially of outsiders but also of insiders. All exiles will be backed by legal documentation, removing all foreign claims of illegality.
One big thing that'll change the world in 50 years you didn't mention is epigenetic treatments, basically changing how genes are used in the body. It will be the key to designer babies, growing custom organs for transplants, and treating diseases (not just genetic ones, i.e. obesity) Source: I'm a medicinal chemist
24:30 I suspect sexual mores and relationship rules are one of the areas that is likely to get more restricted, or at least have higher social pressure to be married, largely because the sexes experience it in fundamentally different ways, and being in a contractually bound union seems to be the lowest stressor rate for both parties. Basically, take a look at the suicide rates for single, married, and cohabiting women, then compare them to the suicide rates for single, married and cohabiting men. Singles of both sexes kill themselves at much higher rates, with married persons having the lowest. However, cohabiting women have been similar or worse than single women. Men and women also have very different hormonal reactions to physical intimacy, with women generating large quantities of the bonding hormones over it, and the men, simply don't. It frustrates me that no-one seems willing to discuss the basic biology of all of this, as though we can simply wish away the way our bodies work. But, again, because of the biological differences between men and women, the exclusive contract bond seems to be the mode that most balances the contradictory needs of the two parties.
I agree with you on this. Take for instance the Victorian Era, which is often mocked as a period of extreme restrictions for men and women concerning sex but never ask why. The era prior to the Victorian Era, the Georgian Era was extremely sexually liberal for it's time and it led to extremes in STD rates and caused the rise of stricter religious practices because they were the only one that focused on the destruction sexual liberation brought to the various lower and middle classes. The same seems to be happening now but it's a weird mess - more restrictions are being imposed on men sexually but fewer restrictions are being placed on women, as can be seen with the rise of sites like OnlyFans This can't keep going - something's gotta give and we are going to see a breakdown somewhere down the line
But I want to live alone. I feel that's what my brain is best wired for. I don't really have a desire for relationships. I know this must be some kind of illness but that doesn't change anything.
Marriage is broken, and no amount of gay people can fix it. The legal treatment of men in the dissolution of marriage is so bad that the institution will just go away, and people will just shack up. I also predict the rise of more doomer cultures, like Incels, as the internet drives us apart into our favorite virtual worlds with little to no actual physical interaction. Of course this will lead to population decline everywhere in the world, that does not embrace immigration.
The interesting thing about MAD is it may not always be a certainty. As richer countries(US, China) advance it’s possible their defense systems could reduce the probability of destruction enough that they consider a nuclear war “winnable” especially vs poorer nuclear countries(India, Pakistan, North Korea) with relatively small arsenals.
This is always an interesting prospect to me. There is always a chance that two countries are at each others throats, see a weakness in the other guys armor and pulls a surprise attack. If the USA found a way to magically, using some new technology or hacking disable every North Korean nuke I think there would be a strong chance of the USA invading for instance. It'll be interesting to see who pulls the trigger on this first in the next century, and the ecological disasters that result if any, depending on number of missiles or other methods used.
That has always been the case. MAD existed between US and USSR. Other countries didn't have enough nukes to cross the threshold of MAD. I mean US security umbrella protected Europe. European countries individually couldn't do enough damage to stop being conquered by Soviets.
@@alecshockowitz8385 You think China wouldn't involved if US invaded North Korea? If that was the case US could've invaded before North Korea got nuclear technology.
@@apathak34 I mean, we did invade North Korea before they got Nukes and China pushed us back, then we push back again... it's called the Korean war. I don't think China presently would be as interested in making the same kind of sacrifices for their backwards little client state like they did then tho.
Technically, as of right now, the US and Russian arsenal count in the thousands each (numbers are always iffy cause russia 'misplaced' a few nukes when the USSR broke apart and both countries have blacksite bases out the ass) whereas China is only estimated to have around 260. Now, they'd be able to kill a major West Coast US city in a full blown exchange for sure, helped by the fact most of their arsenal is mounted to trucks for mobile launches and the US would rely on mainly subs and bomber formations with silo launch sites being siting targets. Due to the distances and American naval superiority (Pacific fleets would seek to intercept any missiles they could while subs would empty out their arsenals at basically point blank range close to China) and the much wider US detection net. The Aleutian islands, Hawaii, Guam, Marshall Islands, and navy stations are all much closer to launches to China than China is to launches in the US giving the US more reaction time in the event of being taken by surprise. Even if China made a first strike, the US would scramble every bomber we had world-wide, the entire pacific would be lit up with interdiction fire, and by the time the majority of our arsenals arrived in China via the bomber wings, they'd have long spent their entire arsenal and the US would have more than enough weapons to pick whatever sort of targets we wanted, cities, infrastructure (such as power grids) or military installations, where as the Chinese have to keep an extremely limited list of what they target. 100 nukes is not 100 dead cities, it's 90 nukes killed over the ocean, a few killed over your own airspace, a dud or two, and three or four actually hitting a city and killing people (or hitting four spread out military bases and no cities). Interception of missiles is way more effective than the actual missiles. You actually want to kill the most people, it'd be way easier to send a satellite fitted with a powerful EMP device (probably of nuclear design) and detonate it over North America, knock out our totally unshielded power grid. US gov did projections on such a scenario (or a solar flare such as another Carrington event) and within 2 years 98% of the population died without the power grid. Way more apocalyptic than a nuclear war. Anyhow, even a full blown nuclear war using the entire arsenals of the US and China would not be a MAD scenario, China simply doesn't have enough nukes either. There are certainly elements of military command who would trade a handful of US cities for total obliteration of a rival super power. In the present landscape, hell no, it'd never happen, the top brass at the Pentagon would kill their mothers before they betrayed their loyalty to China. If we dug up General Macarthur or Dwight Eisenhower and let them look at LA and San Francisco today, they'd pull the trigger (knowing those cities would probably be gone) in a heartbeat.
Great video. The only thing I could add here is climate change. How it will affect us the rest of the century is not fully clear, but depending on how pessimistic the projections are, it can definitely create unpredictable social and political upheavals. The "Islamic World" is particularly vulnerable to this, but even developed countries that theoretically have the wealth and technology to absorb the impact can get wracked, not to mention potential "climate refugee" crises, and the potential rise of eco-fascist tendencies. I'm not saying it is the apocalypse, but that climate change can throw some unpredictable spanners into the current trends.
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Agreed about the USA when they always say a “declining superpower”. It will always be a super power. The country is large and very fertile land blessed with natural resources with coasts into the worlds major oceans. To me it seemed to be having more issues in 1970s and 80s than now.
The UK was a odd surprising mash up of good luck and skill to be the super power for as long as it was for such an isolated and small country.
China has always been a world/super power most of human civilisation, it’s just got smashed to bits last 150 years and has finally picked itself up off the carpet.
Russia will be back and will play the “third way” of the world between USA’s mindset and China’s.
The EU if get together in a more federal manner will be the 4th power of the world
Being a doomer in the short term makes sense but since humanity made it through so many wars, plagues, and ecological crises we can probably survive anything. I’m optimistic in the long term.
Ever heard of the term "survivor bias"? ;)
@@aldoushuxley5953
Ever heard of "being a little bitch"?
@@takkorinus7909 sure. What is your point? Survivor bias literally applies here. "We have made it through so many wars, plagues ... that we can probably survive anything"
"I survived russian roulette three times, I think I will keep playing, I don't think I can get hurt"
@@aldoushuxley5953
Too many of those "doomer" types whail and moan on how bad their life and life in general is, but try naught to make it better.
Our reality is that we've survived being brought down in the couple of thousands and yet, were here. Is it bias? Surely. Does that negate our resilience. I don't think so.
@@takkorinus7909 How is that your impression of me though? I have done plenty to improve my life, and I am not complaining...
Sure, humanity is very resiliant. As were many other species. I am not saying anything, other than that you can not rate our survival rate based on the events we survived so far.
A book I can highly recommend on that subject is "the black swan" by Nassim Taleb
I’m sorry the fact that Brunner’s book has the character named “Obomi” as the first black president in the US actually makes me fucking think he was a yime traveler
Did you know that obomi was Obama’s last name
He tried warning us but it turns out history is written in stone and corrected itself despite his changes to the timeline. What has been done cannot be undone, we must live through hell world, it turns out we can't get around it with a pro-gamer move.
@@theoldcavalier7451 holy fuck I'm wheezing rn
And not a very subtle one.
@@darken2417 we live in the good world we just have to wait for our flower to bloom
"We wil see a Islamic caliphate. because enough people want it on the internet that they can coordinate and make it happen". Does that mean we will also see Yugoslavia 3 return of the tito? (Jk)
Haha
More likely than his Islamic caliphate defeating two nuclear armed states (Israel, Russia) and besting NATO which includes three nuclear armed states (USA, England and France).
Maybe in a paradox video game. But in the real world Turks, Arabs, Kurds and Persians are at each others throats and no amount "everyone is a Muslim" handwaving will make them stop.
@@robertalaverdov8147 Yes.
We will also get Half-Life 3, a PC remaster of Ico and the complete redoing of the Disney Star Wars sequels.
@M G no there are many.
'Religion is why things happen and science is how'
Such a wonderful and true statement
Since the time of St. Augustine, Christian theologians have been consistently asserting that "faith and reason" are not in competition. Thomas Aquinas established this for the Western Church. This led directly to the development of science and then the Industrial Revolution.
"Economists never read enough history for their own good, in my opinion."
Shots fired.
that seems like a shot directly at just the facts
Honestly, i believe it. That would explain the glut of leftist "economists" who somehow still suppprt "Modern Monetary Theory."
He's right, yet he also defends capitalism, so he IS exactly the same person as those economists.
@@Tyler_W Shall we talk about the glut of rightist "economists" who somehow believe neo-liberalism, free markets and capitalism are good economic systems we should preserve? But no, mock progressive leftist economists who see a brighter future and have thoroughly educated solutions to how we can move forward and fix our awful economic problems caused by capitalism. Richard Wolf is a Harvard leftist economist and he's smarter than you ever will be.
@@Wackaz Because capitalism works
Read history
"It's so nice to go to a place like Mexico and see a lot of obese people"
- whatifalthist
We call that Hawaii.
It makes him feel better , as he remembers everyone online calling the USA obese. But no, Mexico is the real obese
@@neolink8197 from what I’ve gathered, he sees it as a relief because it shows that even poorer nations aren’t starving like they were in decades past. There are far more obese people worldwide than malnourished/starving people now. That is a win for humanity. But it also brings its own problems.
I always see Mexicans as fat people.
Well Mexico today is wealthier on a per capita basis than it was 70 years ago. It also has a much larger middle class.
However I also have a theory on why the affliction skyrocketed--and not just in Mexico.
Mexico used to import little beef from the U.S. compared to today (and the beef that was available was often expensive). U.S. beef often is produced from cattle given growth hormones to make them big fast. This stays in the meat. Mexico now imports large quantities of beef from the U.S. Note obesity afflicts both the U.S. and Mexico almost equally (though there are island countries in the Asia-Pacific ahead in this regard).
As Mexico has gotten wealthier with more disposable income, meat, mainly beef consumption imported from the U.S. has increased as well.
Finally Mexico today also has a much bigger industrialized food products market than it did 100 years ago when people in Mexico received all their nutritional needs from basic natively grown staples of beans, tortillas (nixtamalized corn), rice, squash, peppers, tomatoes, etc.
I think my main takeway from this thing is how throughout history whenever a trend takes place most people assume a given trend will last forever and laugh at those who say that it will stop.
yup it's pretty much people taking stuff for granted only for everything to get flipped on it's head because they took it for granted
Yes. Typical futuristic predictions are commonly based on a demographic and economic snapshot from the 50 or 60 and extrapolating the current growth rates into infinity.
Particularly in older science fiction from the mid 20th century, you regularly encounter these futuristic human empires that have colonized hundreds of thousands of planets with populations in the hundreds of trillions. But it's now pretty certain that human population will peak at 10~ billion and then probably start to shrink down. It would take all of humanity to stick to a population control program that creates stable birth rates of 3 or 4 for hundreds or thousands of years. But why would any government want to have fast growing population for just a century? What would be the point?
A lot of popular visions of the future are like this.
China's main propaganda point is that their growth will never stop, but that's a ridiculous point on face value on economic, demographic and historic terms. Basically everyone with brain realizes economic growth isn't forever
To be smart, you just gotta assume everybody's stupid and only talk serious stuff to those who really read books.
The only constant is change
Hopefully we bigfoots will be safe in the wilderness from some of the bad things to come this century
Just avoid John Marsden and you will be fine.
We can only pray
Harambe?!
with the currant volcanic activity Yellowstone will soon burst so your pretty much screwed as well.
Deforestation and rich people wanting to isolate themselves
Hey Whatifalthist I just wanted to say I love your videos. I’m finally in college and a poli sci student and your videos really give me perspective and clarity. I’m writing my first attempt at political theory and it was inspire by you and common problems I see with historical perspective. I’m so happy more people are recognizing how awesome your channel is so I just want to say thank you for making such great videos.
Thanks so much
@@SnowyButterfly1 bruh
I relate so much, also studying pol sci, also loving this channel ❤❤❤
@@SnowyButterfly1 he wants to become anonymous again. Even though that will be hard to accomplish, I imagine that even asking simple questions like this is prohibited under his code.
Bro good luck doing political science in college. Stay strong I've heard it's a shithole
"It's nice to go to Mexico and see obese people" that needs VERY specific context
so true lol
Well, Mexico has a very high amount of obese people, not sure what percentage or rank on the Obese meter of the world, but it's a large number.
@@wizzotizzo yeah, I've heard. It's really unfortunate, unless you look at it from the perspective whatifalthist is looking at it from: world hunger is going down
And actually it is a huge problem as many people here are obese but in malnutrition. Mexico is #1 in hypertension worldwide and among the firsts in diabetes patients, but eating street food is so cheap, convenient and tasty that nobody will really bother to take care of their diet until they have to go to the ICU :(
so Mexico is now the most obese country in the world. Being even more obese than the United States. Mcdonald's is not a big reason why people are obese in Mexico.
wow, you summed up like 10000 hours of research into 25 minutes. this video answered so many questions and concerns ive thought about over the past couple of years, and put all the little individual ideas together into one big thing where it all connects and makes sense
I don't know, glowing rabbits have seriously improved my standard of living personally. I know hardly anyone who hasn't had their days brightened knowing that we now have glowing rabbits. Next we need pitless mangos.
Lmao I might not be able to use the bathroom while on shift at the Amazon factory but at least I got glowing bunnies
Pitless mangos would be amazing.
No, what we need is Translucent Gerbils, that way we can have pets whose internal organs are always visible. I think it’ll give us a greater appreciation for life, being shown how fragile life is by taking care of them.
Boneless Pizza
@@stormaflu4632 Boneful bananas?
The 21st century is either going to be humanity's best century ever or worst century, no in-between I feel.
You could say that on every centurie ever bro
@@arawl460 golf clap to you good sir, couldn’t agree more
The end to the world war trilogy will come, and the amount of human bloodshed is gonna cost is just horrifying to think.
If anyone wants a genuinely shit century, may I direct you to the 14th?
- The Black Death
- The Mongols and the Golden Horde is still around
- The Hundreds Year War
- More civil wars with Byzantium
or its gonna be the worst and the best.
Being a doomer in a developing country with good prospects is really surreal for me. I can see the bright future for my country but also see the systematic problems that would fester and ruin it's society. Pointing these corruptions out with the hope to fix it early will be always met with shortsighted optimism and arguments like "But we are seeing fast growth so it's acceptable" or "We've got enough money to go around". Sometimes I just wish I was ignorant and just live my life happily till I die, leaving the shitshow to younger generations.
Hugs
Hugs to you dude. You just sort of described me too. Which nation are you from? Am from india
You sound like loser
Dunno where you're fram but exactly that here too. Like, word for word.
Isn't ignoring cultural or systematic problems because the future looks prosperous a baby boomer attitude? Rise above, fight to improve your country and drive change, at least that's what I do
"Religion is the "why" things happen, and science is the "how".
Something people should remember.
Great job Whatifalthist.
Nah. That is a subtle God of the Gaps arguments. Science explains "how", hence forces, electricity, and types of organic chemistry reactions, along with "what", "when", and "why".
Do we even need a why? Or why do we assume there is one? Why not be satisfied with How, untill How maybe, or maybe not, shows us a Why?
@Martin Luther There is such thing as the God of the gaps fallacy, in which the supernatural is used to answer questions yet answered about the natural world. Not all theists use this fallacy as the they only evoke religion on things not pertaining to the natural world. The only issue there is that the empirical evidence for the supernatural is lacking. What cannot be demonstrated with evidence (the Bible and anecdotes do not count) can be dismissed without evidence, though I am interested to read about the evidence you can provide.
The fruits of a materialist and empirical mindsets have caused to scientific advancements that improved our standards faster than religion form the previous millennia (there are more advancements since the embracing David's Hume's writings on science than the previous 1,500 years).
@Martin Luther No. It is that if science has to answer we should accept "we don't know" instead of god. Science can only answer the falsifiable pertaining to observable reality. I am not saying science will answer anything. It is that if we don't answer, don't pull the "God did it" card.
Made up stories don't explain the "why" nearly as well as science does.
Whatifalthis is literally Datamining whatever God put in the game
@@SnowyButterfly1 Datamining is when you look through the data of a game to find things, such as weapons or characters that are upcoming, or unreleased content. Datamining could mean finding a future block in Minecraft, or a new fighter in Smash Bros
@@SnowyButterfly1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining
your name hasn’t changed
@@SnowyButterfly1 Datamining is when you look into a game's code. In this context it would mean that he's researching into god's creation (reality, much like how a developer creates games,) to come with worldly insight.
I hope that cleared up any doubts.
Peace and love. ✌♥🌎
What if napoleons was never born?
Halloween Special Idea: What if a zombie Apocalypse actually happened in real life.
Would the military actually be competent unlike the movies? How would it affect American culture or the culture of other countries? How could humanity bounce back?
or some alien invasion... I dont know lol
Pmilitaries are wildly more efficient than in movies especially western armies. The reason the US lost in Afghanistan isnt cos the army was not any good it was because they were averse to losing life and werent in a full out war i.e. Not fighting wholeheartedly as in WW2 as it posed no threat to the US.
I really like this, the world war z book was a good attempt at this imo
The US would fight for 20 years and then fail
@@nickcarriero8274 yeah was gonna say it would basically just be wiah reading wwZ but I would not complain if that happened
If its walking dead style, zeds will lose immediately cuz ffs anyone can kill a rotten corpse or just flee. If its World War Z kinda running zombies (zombie tower thing makes zero sense, just take the running aspect) it may get outta control but a lotta folks will survive in secure zones and they'll probably clean the world day by day securing it after a while. I dont think humanity will end or we'll lose control completely. Communication is fast asf so we'll hear about zombies by the time first person encounters one and survives and be sure that they exist by the time government decides its outta control or they infected a whole town or something.
“Religion is the why and science is the how.” I’ve honestly felt this way my whole life my dude you just put it into words.
Science, as a method of learning, was literally started by Christians (and others) trying to figure out the mechanics behind God's creation.
@@randlebrowne2048 that makes sense. I’ve always seen them as intertwined rather than separate unlike so many people.
Religion claims to bring answers, but they also come to the same logical brick wall that science does.
You could say "what created the universe? It must have been God.", but then what/who created God? The answer to that is always "God created himself", which is almost as illogical as saying the universe was created from nothing. Both are equally illogical, and I think humanity might be permanently stuck in this logical paradox.
@@pizzatime2001 even if we are I’d like to think if they both worked together we could at least move forward rather than argue and stay stuck in the mud about it
@@hodo254 I hope so too. I think the religious question will always come down to personal opinion/belief, and humanity should be more concerned on how to coexist instead of forcing one answer.
RIP "An ego trip where I vomit my reading list to you"
😂 it was too factual
We all know that by now though, there’s no practical need to repeat it.
@Saturnius yeah I like that one better too
What?
@@driveasandwich6734 it was a part of the old intro
These videos are somewhat comforting in that they give the message "history will follow its course and there nothing you can do to stop it"
Pretty Much...!!!🤷♂️
Honestly I dislike it whenever people criticize your work with "Well you use maps so your just a map game larper" even though what your saying can be proven with a google search. Keep up the good work.
THIS. People who call him a larper are idiotic
Calling him a ‘Larper’ is also just a blatantly inaccurate usage of the term too, as ‘LARP’ stands for ‘Live Action Role Play’. And there isn’t anything live action about this.
Criticism isn't bad
@@iamaloafofbread8926
True. But senseless criticism is bad.
People that call him a larper are idiotic, but people that think of him as a prophet are fools too. Honestly, i kinda get why people that call him larper think of him that way, after all, he's the same guy that since Turkish nationalism is on the Rise and the middle eastern countries are unstable and weak, he thinks that in the span of a century a new gargantuan Ottoman empire will be reborn. Which is kind of ridicoulous obviously
God after you correctly guessed the ending to his latest book “the 21st century”
“Well now I’m not gonna do it”
"There is a theory which states that if the ultimate purpose of the Universe were ever discovered it would disappear and be immediately replaced by something even more inexplicable. There is a further theory which states that this has already happened."
Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
@Are You Going To Do The 'Ora Ora' Thing? ...geological consent, you say.
@Are You Going To Do The 'Ora Ora' Thing? Wtf is geological consent and cosmic mercy?
@Are You Going To Do The 'Ora Ora' Thing? "haha but guys he didn't take into account that we could be hit by a meteor shower and be wiped out tonight xd"
Egyptian empire, Saudi Arabia conquers Turkey and Iran, South Africa conquers Africa
Anybody else shocked that whatifalthist is only 20 years old? Props to you man
-a fellow 20 year old
as a 24 year old i feel dumb now haha.
I weep as Julius Ceaser did for Alexander the Great. A 21 year old.
I'm 20 too men
@Victorius Hugustus 20
@Aliyan ✪ Depends. He did a lot of shit mainly because he had a Stellar Education, and more than that he suck out knowledge. He even had Aristotle, THE Aristotle as his *personal tutor*. He was a fan of Diogenes, and even supposedly went to meet him in person. Alexander was also very ambitious, he really went big with his plans. He possibly killed his father to become king, and had the long-term vision of unifying Greece and Persia politically and culturally. If you want to have a big impact on the world, get good and aim high.
You underestimate Asian / Chinese social penchant for hive mind mentality. Classic liberalism is not a global phenomenon, despite how badly western postmodernists want to believe this. It is in fact a uniquely western invention with strong Christianity shaped roots.
Postmodernists love classical liberalism? 😳
@@gaby6406 lol
Possibly. However, most social changes in society are driven by technological innovation disrupting old values and ways of doing things. While east Asia certainly has a great deal of cultural inertia for group centric thinking, having access to a free Internet might start breaking those values down over time as they are increasingly exposed to Western ideas.
@@randyjones3050 ideas change with tech, but if you assume that the inevitable conclusion of technological advancement is liberal democracy you’d be very wrong. The west seems far more prepared to slip into the Chinese model of information control and social engineering than the Chinese are to transition towards the liberal model.
@@shaunenwright7872 I don't believe that technology creates any "inevitable conclusions". It only creates changes. Different societies will react differently as individuals within each society seek to leverage new technologies to improve their own lives.
I would certainly consider you a "Doomer" but you're a Doomer with good reasoning.
yes, most doomers are just doomers for the sake of being doomers
@@LydiaMoMydia Source for that comment?
I wouldn't consider him a doomer more of someone who's trying to predict trends
@@jamesdavis9036 the internet. Just the internet in general.
Aren't doomers doomers because they are capable in reasoning?
My man just staring at a overweight Mexican family just thinking to himself “Ahh yes good I see the capitalism is working”
Lmao
I think it's more seeing it from the broad lense of human history, where famine was common, families not being able to have even one square meal per day was the norm or families eating a very basic diet was the norm - which it was for most of human history.
Compared to today - where you need to tell people to not stuff themselves with bad food but there is such an overabundance of food, that people don't even realise how blessed they are and eat like pigs
@@savioblanc I get it it was just a joke fam no need to expleeen it
"And I think to myself, what a wonderful world..."
@@HighlyRegardted there's more truth in your joke than there is in all of WhatIfAltHist's worldview
I find it highly doubt that life extension, specifically various methods of halting or reversing the aging process(actual immortality is something different and almost certainly impossible anyway) will actually be stopped by any taboo. Nobody actually wants to get older, and in my opinion aging will wind up being treated as a disease to be treated rather than an inevitable fact of life.
The thing is, it’s such a ground breaking technology, we have noooo idea how it would play out. In my opinion, death gives life meaning.
@@lukedrewry2816 That could easily be written up as a cope for the inevitabilty of death. Personally, I don't want immortality, for a lot of reasons, chief among them being I'm curious about what happens after death.
That perhaps may come true in the future, but at present, and in the first decades coming out of such an invention, we wont bd able to pchycologilcly comprehend it and will attempt to shut it out due to our lack of understanding, and therefore, fear, of it.
@@lukedrewry2816 it doesn’t mean you won’t die, it’s just you won’t die of old age
Might be worth living a couple hundred years, see what its like. What the hell that would do to someones pyschology though, who knows?
I like the general approach and perspective that this guy has for the future. My only observation is that at I think that when it comes to describing and understanding the third world, his perspective seems to fall into what anthropologists call underdifferentiation. This is, people from developed nations thinking about less developed countries as a single group, believing that they are more similar than they actually are, and that they respond to the same challenges, processes and problems, ignoring massive cultural differences that makes them completely unique from each other. Usually, this falls into an ethnocentric perspective, and it is the reason why most people in the 1940´s saw the same future for both China and India, because back then they were equally poor, underdeveloped and economically destroyed. But they ignored the factor that they both have a completely different and unique culture, having passed through very different historical process that even if at that moment had resulted on what seemed identical endings, they both had a completely separate intrinsic potential, hidden on what was apparent for most people in the developed world. They did not realize that China is not a country, it is a civilization, while India is hundreds of pieces of different puzzles that do not match with each other, but are sticked together with the force of power. It was not until the 60s, when the Western World realized how much different one was from each other and started thinking about China as something that could become a global power in the short term, and about India as a country that still needed a lot more time to develop a solid social, economic and cultural structure. Right now there could be developing countries that are already showing signals of the potential they have, but still, are being mostly ignored by people who think they are all the same. I´m not sure which one could be, maybe Indonesia, or perhaps Ethiopia, maybe Nigeria or even India after all. But one of them could be the next global power and threat to the status quo, and it seems like most people on the Western World, is not putting attention to this.
PD: That map where Vietnam, Mongolia and Cambodia appeared as developed countries, but not Israel, the UAE or Singapore was super weird.
As a third worlder this is an issue that appears more often than not in his videos
Is good and thought provoking comment
OMG, yes, thank you for speaking straight facts! As a Californian, i'm like this dudes gotta be a Boomer or a Canadian from British Colombia or Saskatchuan. But his perspective is like yup, we in the West and Europe will still be advanced and #1 for many years to come and China and Russia will have gone to shiza and oh yea Islam all unites and also Latin America. I can tell this dude hasn't done his research on the Americas and doesn't understand the complexities of Europe.
One topic he did not discuss was the coming linguistic wars and lingustic evolutions , we are going to start seeing governments form and influence not by race but by language both online dialects and actual .
One clear example is Mexico, I don't believe that Mexico will be a full spanish speaking country by 2040. I think, like the phiipines it will switch to being an English or Spaniglish speaking country, US influence is growing over there like crazy in Monterrey and Tijuana. I can go deeper, but the point is by 2040 Mexico will no longer be apart of the 'latin america' identity and will be sort of like Turkey < turkish not arab but still muslim>. Thats not even including the coming Nahuatl preservation efforts to potentially get a Central vs North conflict going.
But South America is getting something similar and Argentina will play a major role in a shift up.
The French language will start competing with English as Africas population booms. So we will see the French and Anglo sphere collide again. This might trigger something in Quebec. Theres a book Pontypool changes everything , where French Canada secceeds by using a lang virus ; its also seen in Metal Gear V w/ the vocal chord parasite.
You will see maps change based on language. So India will be super divided , i'm not sure why he thinks all of india will remain the same for another 30 yeras, those rivers are drying up and we probably see some shi* pop off in India too.
But that's just the military viewpoint of it. He never goes into Japans influence , and thats the biggest question mark. Of where their society heads next and how it changes for all of us.
Nigeria is more like India. Ethiopia is more like China. Its just that Nigeria has had more of a favourable start. I mean there was a major famine in Ethiopia in 1987, and I believe their last civil war ended in 1993. Although right now there is internal rebellion going on. Yet so far it has remained manageable. But the 2030s and 2040s will show things differently.
@@chibiromano5631 He also ignores the fact or he just might not know that the 3rd largest cyberspace is in the language of Farsi. After English & Chinese. He also seems to not know that if sea levels rise as predicted than that means more than half of the major cities and ports of the USA will have to be moved somewhere else by the end of the century. Now that is a colossal infrastructure undertaking which will cost tens of trillions of dollars. That alone will probably bring about the end of the USA republic. Not to mention due to diminishing oil reserves the petrodollar is increasingly no longer viable. Which means at some point within the next 2 decades or so hyperinflation will come to the USA. Which will create balkanization not just in the USA but the collective Western world.
At last a new video, I was waiting weeks! Welcome back buddy.
I literally half ago thought about this channel not uploading
WE'RE GOING TO HELL
@@SnowyButterfly1 Yo let me know what you think about my vids if you're looking for more alt-history. Always open to new perspectives
"This is why totalitarianism almost always burns out quickly in that no one's smart enough to control an entire society from above"
Except Paradox gamers
You know we’re just not human anymore at that point xD
Paradox games are beyond unrealistic
If a ruler had the balls, brains and guts to make a Secular Pro-Tech nation back in Imperator Rome the world would be in a much better place
His nation would also be very powerful and rich
Great minds think alike
@@christiandauz3742 or he would just be assassinated lol
@@Nobody-pv9jt
Hire loyal bodyguards and body doubles
An Industrialized nation at the start of Imperator Rome would be unstoppable
Sometimes I like to think about living on a corn farm on Mars with green energy and all my modern conveniences being made in 3d printer, working remotely with zoom, yet also being deeply religious traditional, and agricultural.
Corn farm in Mars?
You read too much NASA propaganda.
Le me escape the mars
The goverment: COME AND DRINK YOUR CORN SYRUP, I LOVE THE ANTICHRIST
Hell yeah!
Based
youll never have a zoom call on mars because of the light lag. your ping would be 8-36 minutes at best
“We don’t need big corporations because of the gig economy“ literally mentions corporations like Zoom and Uber lol.
arguable those are infrastructures more than companies. Essentially an infrastructure that a company maintains.
He also doesn't understand why corporations/companies exist. They exist for the same reason any groups form including historic empires, modern states, the evolution of our species, animal herds, multicellular life, & the planetary biosphere, because cooperation is advantageous when competing, especially when facing great outside pressure.
The internet didn't change this, it didn't take too long for UA-camrs (an example of gig economy) to form "online content creator companies" like Machinima or IGN or Maker Studios or the Yogscast LLC, probably won't be long till smaller groupings like the Dream SMP do the same assuming it doesn't die off.
(of course this isn't to say all modern corporations are good, according to Cultural Multilevel Selection (CMLS) theory:
Competition between groups (up to whole societies) fosters within-group cooperation.
Competition within groups (between their members) destroys cooperation.
Modern corporations are plagued by within-group competition as CEOs cheat workers. As is the entire country & many countries around the globe today. Due to labor oversupply forces causing the wealth to go towards the top [As finding available workers is easy] & the overcompetition that follows as every individual tries to get rich & be elites as shown in "the Crisis of the 21st century")
Yeah and those corporations are ever more encroaching on stuff like the internet which he was touting.
0:00 Introduction
5:57 Greater wealth
10:17 Clash of civilisations
13:24 Humanity gains the power of gods and realises they don't want it
18:05 Populism and the internet
The craziest fact we learn in this video:
22:43 - Dude is 20 years old.
Grad student in historical theology here. Love the kudos to the entire field of theology at the end there. Just wanted to chip in that as far as techno-utopianism goes, The Fall of Adam is literally about grabbing the knowledge of God and having buyers remorse. The Tower of Babel shortly thereafter details how a promising new invention (the brick) isn't so great as everyone thought. Tech is great, but tends to create new issues or highlight old ones.
I want to know if there are multiple meanings to the same story in theology. Does that ever happen?
@@eax2010EA sure, all the time. This is not necessarily true only of theological texts/stories either: consider humpty-dumpty...is the point of the story to not do dumb things like sit on top of a tall wall (a practical, literal interpretation), or is it that some things, once broken, simply cannot be put back together again? Can it be both? Theology is a little different in that it presumes that God is involved somehow, and has packaged these stories/points/texts such as they are for a reason.
For an ancient (2nd-3rd century CE), yet surprisingly modern Christian perspective on "layers" of interpretation, see the works of Origen of Alexandria.
@@scottgoodson1847 Thanks for the perspective. What do you think is the most sought after reason for belief in God? Does it change depending on the century?
@@eax2010EA That's going to vary a lot because by nature its a very personal pursuit; as a synergistic Christian, I would also state that I think God has to have a hand in the pursuit as well. If the question is more a direct "Scott, why do you think people believe in God?" I would spitball that (many) people believe because they want to. Even Nietzsche seems to have *wanted* to believe in God to some extent in order to make the world make sense. Without trying to be too dogmatic, I would say that regardless of century, many seek belief in God for the same reason; it makes the world make sense. Otherwise, one likely comes to a humanist or nihilist perspective. Nihilism is cogent (and if it weren't, it wouldn't care anyway lol), but even it's most ardent "believers" do not actually manage to live like nothing matters because it is (seemingly) so foreign to human existence. Even Diogenes, perhaps the poster boy of not giving a d@mn, wanted people to agree with him/see the truth in what he was saying (course he wasn't technically a nihilist, but you hopefully get the idea...people feel the need to live like things matter for some reason; God is perhaps the easiest [best?] answer).
Do you or people in your field see the Bible, specifically the book of genesis, as metaphorical or as fact?
Dude I'm currently on the bus and I'm going to school your videos are so fun and informative. Keep doing you. love from Turkey.
Wait aren’t you guys meant to be in lockdown because of COVID 19
@@nataliekennedy4646 yeaahh about that. we have one of the highest counts of covid cases ever in our country but government does not give a shit. people self quarantine. 12+ years old people get vaccinated anyways
@@sosasroamaccount kind of an alpha move by the government. are you worried about civil war?
@@jarrah580 nah. you see every other middle eastern country were divided even before outside intervention since they lacked national identity. Just look at the approval rates of the government at the coup attempt in 2016. Even if you support opposition, in dire times you will put your country first.
Damn you need 25 minutes to reach your school!!!!!
I feel like it would be much easier to understand if I were a pothead. The finely mixed blend of "it is so" and "it will be so" gives me a whiplash.
22:53 "Religion appeals to the masses and philosophies to the administrators" and the fact that religion will be the dominant one in a world of decentralized governments, and philosophy in a very bureaucratic and centralized world is a statement worth remembering for the future.
Perfect human cult religion when?
@@yonathanrakau1783 >perfect
>human
>cult
>religion
uwotm8
And all history nerds know what horrors both extremes can bring. Let's not indulge in either, and balance them instead.
@@yonathanrakau1783 So...40s Germany?
It's worth remembering among the great wrong generalizations of this world.
16:20 I would point out that there’s also an innate and animal fear of death, much more ingrained than the taboo against immortality.
I seriously doubt people would choose to die outside their own terms of given the choice, regardless of the consequences or taboos.
I disagree, people in general don't fear death exactly. They fear an untimely death, in fact in extreme old age many people are ready for life to be over.
@@Prof.GoodFeels88 Old people are only ready for life to be over because physical old age is a horrible disease that makes old people suffer.
@@Prof.GoodFeels88 they are ready for life to be over as in old age they constantly suffer from their body failing them as well as often the mind, with modern tech we can see the aging slowed and i don't think someone with body of their 30s wanting to die beocuse they are over 100 years old
@@wires-sl7gs it is silly to say something so simplistic so definitively. That is a contributing factor sure, but there are several other factors some obvious and some hidden that contribute to this effect some far more important than the honestly insignificant factor you suggested as the preeminent reason. For example far more impactful on a person's readiness for death is having nothing to do anymore and having nothing left to give to the world. The idea that their ailments are the sole reason for older people being ready for death is just not even close to true. Not only is it not the only reason, I would argue it is only minimally a factor as people cling to survival under far worse conditions than an achy body. That is because the thing most important to human will to live is not the physical body, but the human spirit and hope for purpose and meaning.
@@Wojjjie refer to previous reply
Two things stuck out for me during this video. Both revolve around university:
Due to the rise in tuition, a college degree will be a status symbol in itself. Then, those with college degrees will feel more empowered to feel like they should have the ability to make decisions that impact millions of other people. After all, they are "right" because they were to college.
Untill the college debt bubble pops and degrees become actually exclusive and professional again.
" Then, those with college degrees will feel more empowered to feel like they should have the ability to make decisions that impact millions of other people."
They already do. Seriously. And also, by college degrees, you talking all of'em, or the actual useful ones? And by useful, I don't mean ones like the Gender Studies 101 and such.
@@Rednecknerd_rob9634 even the useful degrees have tonnes of outdated garbage in them. Unless youre going to an elite university, your education will emphasise the ability to recite information from a book, wether its correct, outdated or illogical or not. Not actual problem solving.
Whatifalthist: "Everyone's going to end the 21st century significantly better than they started."
Also whatifalthist: Shows map with collapsed Russia and Balkans under Turkish control.
Yes. That's much better for everyone.
All of Europe would go to war with turkey if they even tried to take half of Greece let alone the balkans
I guess slavs don't count...
@@haltdieklappe7972 face it; greece is no western country. Greece has much more in common with the middle east than western Europe. Trust me, I've been there.
@@cursedwanderer1753 doesn’t matter. Greece is geographically and historically european. No other reason needed to protect it
I agree that the united islanmic caliphate will happen, but I don't see how it ever takes Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. I can atleast speak for Bulgaria, but we are taught from a young age that our greatest heroes fought turks/islam and with the current massive rise of nationalism we won't go down without a fight. I can see how all the muslims in Bulgaria are killed or relocated before we would go for another period as slaves. Greece is also way too proud of their "ancient helenic" origins so they wouldn't be likely to fall easily too.
More likely there will be more atheist or agnostic than Muslims in the middle East at the year 2100 as technology and knowledge spreads , I don't think having an United outdated Islamic caliphate is a good idea
Taking those countries probably wouldn't happen with out the EU ceasing to exist as a very meaningful agent anyway. It actually includes a mutual self defense clause after all, so if Turkey attacked them, they should in principle be required to come aid. And while admittedly some times nations might not really want to, the other hand here would be letting some one invade arbitrarily deep in to European areas while doing nothing, which sounds kind of Chamberlain like. So I don't think it's likely.
Of course, Turkey would probably realize that as well, which would probably make it quite hesitant to attack unless it was really sure the defense clause wouldn't be honored. Something kind of hard to do with so many other members, plenty not always the most positive about them or authoritarian states.
So yeah, I'm not seeing how it can happen either unless the EU ceases to exist.
@@demo9299 No secular people do not have as many kids as religious, especially in this day and age. Islamic world will not get more moderate.
@@bnmbg731 so it's better to have kids, while you cannot afford basic needs?
And allowing overpopulation , running out of resources, basically making the earth as a living nightmare, while filled with people who praise and imaginary thing preached by an illiterate deceiver from 7th century Arabia.
What could go wrong?
Atheism is growing in the Middle-East
Atheism is progress while fictitous religion promptes child rape and incest
"That sounds entirely useless" this sounds like what my friends are always telling me when I'm rambling on about new IT stuff with narrow use applications. Made me laugh and also, another great video.
It's also what people thought about quantum mechanics until it suddenly wasn't.
@@dragatus Agreed. All scientific research seems largely useless until you suddenly make the next atom bomb or other breakthrough technology with it.
there have been plenty of things that sounded entirely useless across history. That is until you mix 3 of those useless ones and it goes boom and just discovered black powder.
Still looks useless until someone else finds it in your shack and trows the packaged powder into the fire for disposal, making it the first IDE.
Boolean philosophy system was completely useless until someone made the internet over it.
I am curious to see how a nation like Japan manages its population in the next 50 years. I feel like there will be a lot to learn from it for the rest of the world in the coming century.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
Stand on Zanzibar correction: If I recall correctly, president Obomi was the president of Beninia, not America, in the book, the US was ruled by a supercomputer in Washington.
21:15 I disagree. The internet makes every issue national or even global, making local politics a sideshow or even irrelevant. Then again, this may just be because the internet is controlled by a few large corporations operating out of a small geographic area.
We live in technotyrrany
Left wing?
@@comradefromtheunknownkatlo6957 Me? No, not really. I'm more of a politically homeless and disenchanted ex-conservative (well, conservative in the modern American sense) who nonetheless doesn't trust leftism, and has thus become centrist by default.
@@gabingston3430 hmm
@@gabingston3430 post-republican conservative?
LETS GO finally a new episode
Exactly! Finally!
It is very interesting but mostly a rehash of old videos/ideas.
My biggest issue with this is that I’m fairly certain something’s gonna break at some point. There’s always some unforeseen event which will shake the basket in ways nobody sees coming.
For example, in 2012, we were almost hit by a geomagnetic storm which would ha devastated the planet’s infrastructure.
Droughts and floods.
That's it, that's enough.
But, if we want to get into U N F O R S E E N C O N S E Q U E N C E S...
*Volcanoes*
Watch cheddars video on the colorado river
I doubt the author even thinks this future is more likely than not, only his best guess.
Well he did mention in the video how wars will not disappear, only total wars will
@@karolakkolo123 Impossible. Something is gonna come along, and with it bring back total war.
We've found out logical thinking isn't the solution for everything a long time ago, that's why modern AI is much more focused on learning from good results than a priori heuristics.
What's worse though is that AI is dependent on priori heuristics as humans are responsible for data labeling and guided development which means that for AI as we design it now will be born with unintentional biases from humans.
The only difference is that modern AI learns the structure from below (from examples) and rationalism tries to approach it from above (using existing structures and theories). Science needs both.
@@sakakaka4064 Modern Ai doesn't even do that as they're statistical regression algorithms which by definition means that they're only able to perceive correlations in data sets and not causal relationships. It is fundamentally up to humans to asses the validity of its conclusions as we can't trust it on its own to come to the correct conclusions because of this
Turing proved that not even mathematics can have perfect closed logic.
@@brandonn.1275 Actually the AI does have good conclusions, the problem is that humans often doesn't like them.
Just yesterday Greece and France agreed on mutual strategical defence outside of NATO, meaning an attack on Greece would mean an attack on France. I guess we have to see if that pact last till 2120, otherwise we can make another video saying the same stuff but for 2220, then 2320 and so on.
I honestly thought EU members would unite. (if it works or not)
@@BuiltSimilarG So we really don't know. The EU does not have a unified foreign policy. it's one of the continent's biggest problems. Most EU countries believe that NATO is the cornerstone of their defense, but Turkey is a NATO country. The French-Greece deal shows the growing exasperation that those countries have with the rest of Europe for not taking their security issues serously. It's hard to say if this deal helps Europe gain a common foreign policy or it is another sign that the EU may buckle under its own contradictions.
Lol as if any of us living that long
France has never helped its allies it is using greece to prove something to NATO which is a super bad idea since actually only non eu countries can provide security in case of an attack to eu.
As a Brazilian living in the Southern region, the most interesting thing about your 2120 map is the independent Rio Grande do Sul with a chunk of Santa Catarina annexed.
É interessante de fato mas é um tanto ingênuo né? Tudo o que ele fala sobre a América do Sul me dá a impressão que ele não sabe oq tá falando
“Economic growth” does not necessarily correlate to greater happiness as village farmers get shoved into Foxconn factories. Just because we have this measurement of economic growth does not mean things are getting “better” in the third world and I think that’s elided by a lot of this.
Quality of life indicators are better measures.
@@iminyourwalls8309 Someone working in a factory is not necessarily better than a village farmer. Farmers don't usually work 10-12 hour days, and have more time off during the off season. Also factory work can be much more dangerous, depending on the factory and the safety regulations. I mean, Foxconn employees weren't jumping to their deaths because they were so happy. "Economic growth" is a blunt instrument in terms of evaluating human happiness.
Here are some thoughts and questions I have about the video:
0:16 I still wonder how you came up with that map.
6:42 How are there so many obese people in the third world? Why does Venezuela have an obesity rate in the same range as the US and Canada? I also find it funny that Bosnia and Lithuania are the exceptions in their respective parts of Europe. I know this is all in 2014, but it's still strange. Libya is even more strange as their civil war started in 2011, yet the obesity rate is on par with their Middle Eastern counterparts.
6:54 Aside from people starving, how is obesity a good sign?
8:30 That trend also assumes that the luxury goods will be able to be produced sustainably and automation will continue its trend of killing some jobs while replacing them with others.
9:05 How are France and the UK projected to continue having rising populations when the other countries mentioned would have theirs decline?
17:50 How would you suppose people would return to a more primitive lifestyle with lots of technology being a thing?
21:35 I'm not sure why I thought that was funny, but it was. I bet many porn stars believe that it currently shouldn't be used as educational material on how to have sex, as there's still the fantasy element behind it.
23:50 I wonder how the rise of things like astrology due to the internet will change things. And one thing I find funny about some of the social sciences is that some of the early influential scientists in those fields were inspired by older fields of study that couldn't be scientific (e.g. Carl Jung using astrology as a basis for personality types, though there probably were other things he got inspiration from as well).
If I may venture to answer some of your questions....
Re: Obesity: Whatifalthist is using obesity as a proxy for each person receiving sufficient calories to not starve and this is accurate. However, simply because a person receives calories does not mean that they have a good or desirable diet and pointing out the presence of obesity being high in the third world has much more to do with the prevalence of sodas over contaminated drinking water than any nutritive value.
Re: Automation: I believe that Whatifalthist wants to have his cake and eat it, too here. He argues that automation will not make significant leaps because AI is impractical, but argues that automation will get to the point where expensive items today will no longer be expensive. Automation will only be able to advance to the point where current luxuries are daily-use products if AI modifies our automation.
Re: UK/France population: UK/FR are rising from immigration, not indigenous population growth. Also, note that the graph was from around 2010, so it was prior to Brexit, when the UK was sucking up European young talent like a sponge.
Re: Primitive Lifestyle: I don't believe that Whatifalthist is genuinely saying that we would abandon all technology, but rather we would "de-urbanize" as a population and create small, bonded communities in rural areas that come together for communal feasts and rituals. Imagine something like hippie communes that don't reject capitalism.
Re: Porn Education: Whatifalthist clearly does not understand porn or that industry at all (which is fine). Porn is as realistic a training for sex as James Bond is a realistic training for undercover work; it is a glamorous, unrealistic display designed to excite the watcher. I agree with him that porn viewership will become more normalized as time goes on, but it strikes me as something that will always carry a negative stigma despite being commonly accepted, like cigarettes. I don't believe anyone will see it as a general positive.
"How are there so many obese people in the third world?" The "third world" nomenclature here is a bit outdated since there are many countries, which might have previously fallen neatly into this category, that now increasingly suffer from health issues we would typically associate with more advanced economies as they progress in their development. A more helpful distinction here perhaps is "developing" vs "underdeveloped" or "low and middle income". In this case, many developing countries have been able to take advantage of increases in food production and more open trade deals to the point where lots of cheap, unhealthy foods are available at excess to the population. As this has one that's happened within a generation or less, it's presented a radical shift in diets for vast swathes of people and correspondingly manifested itself in heart disease being the number 1 cause of death in developing countries.
You know I feel like I’m one of the only people my age that has some sense of historical literacy, even in the academic setting, but then I see Whatifalthist go off.
You make history fun again, haven’t enjoyed it this much since middle school
Shame it's full of capitalist propaganda.
X for doubt
Wow production of your videos is improving for sure! Here’s to almost 300k subs!
2:54 as I Bangladeshi this so obvious. Of course it’s not Bangladesh! See those buildings in the background! You think Bangladesh can have such clean polished buildings?
lol
😂😂😂
I wouldn’t say that society becoming less sexually repressed would make people happier in the long run. Polygamy rarely works because it’s in human nature to be possessive and jealous when it comes to relationships.
I got in this massive comments section war with a bunch of XQc’s viewers on YT where most of them were saying it’s a good thing to have 50 sexual partners and I was one of the only people who was saying that it is a shitty way to live. Humans started practicing monogamy largely in part because universal polygamy would be disastrous for the social fabric of societies…paternity would constantly be in question, jealousy and infighting over relationships would be rampant, nobody would trust anyone to keep promises in business or the community if they were that characteristically fickle with their relationships, pursuit of short term gratification would mean nobody would get anything done. Yet all these online morons scoffed at this idea. I told them to go and practice that lifestyle if they wish, it’s a free country, but to see how fulfilled they feel in 30 years when they’re old and grey and nobody wants them anymore, and they won’t have formed any meaningful connections with partners. Some people just have to make the mistakes, can’t understand it’s a mistake until they’ve already lived through it and it’s too late.
I actually agree that most people think that way
However, when I think of sexual liberation I figured it was more of a “You’re free to do whatever you want, WITH the other body(s) you are with”, which I believe would generally make some people more happy
@@kkonacreed8638 this actually reminded me of something wilt chamberlain said, he slept with a lot of women and it’s estimated to be as high as 20,000 yet he said this at toward the end of his life, “With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying."
I view that statement as being more open about sex, not becoming polygamous.
@@Colddirector what would being “more open to sex” look like? It already seems like Western culture doesn’t just tolerate kinks, but goes out of its way to celebrate them. The natural progression from “sexual liberation/expression” and the West’s “sleeping around/free love” culture would be polyamory and possibly even bestiality and pedophilia if it gets pushed too far.
"my map of the world in 2120" has hungary owning translyvania.
I see that whatifalthist is indeed based
Among the typical detritus found on UA-cam occasionally are found nuggets of gold. This channel is a briiliant diamond. Thanx
"I think everyone's going to end the 21st century significantly better off than how they started"
*Shows a map, where my country has lost the majority of it's territory*
Yeah... right
@@jcc7912 Yeah, I know, it was just a funny concidence of a phrase that contradicted a little bit with the image
@@dexulescu Yeah, well, considering Russia, it won't work - losing 80 percent of it's territory is bad
@@dexulescu Yeah we are soooooo much better off, i mean look at how much Germans hate themselves, amazing
@@dexulescu So stop talking about nations you have no idea
@@dexulescu Germany losing half of it's territory could be linked to the declining birthrate it has, while living standards go up that doesn't mean a guarantee that it will keep the same territory that it has. I think technological breakthroughs are a factor that should have more weight on the prediction of the future, and the shift from centralized workforces to more remote workforces, that it will be more evenly spread as people find their common ideas and groups along with our ability to move across the world more easily.
He forgot about my wife's attractiveness. The trend has been downward ever since the year 2000. Coincidence? I think not!
@@jcc7912 . Geen een bruid, nee. Een secretaris, misschien XD.
Wifekoloniseerd
10:23 completely agree with what they say here. As a Chinese who isn’t really for either America or China entirely, I don’t think that China would be able to hold on with the amount of problems there are just hiding under the surface.
I am genuinly curious, where did you learn to speak english so well? I'm kinda ignorant on how connected China is to the western world lol
@@woetoe2535 I moved to the states when I was pretty young, so I'm actually more fluent in English. Still fluent enough in Chinese to keep up with things there though.
@@yin9647 Oh okay makes sense, do you still visit China from time to time? And if so how is it there? Im from the netherlands personally so i am kinda curious what its like there
@@woetoe2535 Even on usual years its pretty hard to visit bc we technically arent cn citizens anymore, so we'd have to use bribes and connections to get a visa every time. Haven't been able to visit China in a while because of the pandemic. The government uses the whole pandemic as a way to control the population more... A grandparent was having some serious medical issues and my parents were crushed by how none of our other family wanted us to come back since they all genuinely believed that its America and its bs freedom means that everyone here has covid and us visiting would make it worse for the family. kinda sucks ass rn
@@yin9647 Oh, im sorry for u. I hope he gets better! Thanks for answering, im european myself so i really dont get any insight on how chinese americans look upon things in the world. I hope that you can visit soon and that you can convince your family that we have no bad intentions towards them, but most importantly of all that your grandpa recovers :)
WW2 really messed up people's idea of war. I would strongly disagree that it's necessary to overturn political orders or whatever. It was necessary to defeat fascism, and will likely be necessary to defeat any similar future regime. But it's not something that needs to happen with any regularity or commonality.
Look at the collapse of the USSR, which fell not because of military intervention but because of economic failure and disenchantment with the stagnant political order
It was WWI and WWI pt. 2 that had caused massive issues with our perceptions. Not just of war, but of world as a whole.
The bad guys won both world wars and then wrote some really weird fan fic tier history.
@@moshow93 Ok Nazi
Wars is gonna happen it just that not it not in somebody's self interest. Humans are predisposed to do it
No no I think what he meant is that perhaps wars exist for an (evolutionary) reason, and that it helps to restore balance and clarity to civilization (you need a winter in order to have a spring)
He finally remembered his password
Who are you?
@@WhatifAltHist who are you? 🤔
@@doom1894 Who are you?
I'm sorry if this is a strange question, but why did you leave this comment?
@ThePotchie Productions
It's always fascinating to sit and listen to your videos despite you having no credentials in academics, despite such thing you gave profound wisdom to me and at such time thankful always to it. No amount of historian nor other likeminded people should belittle you in my opinion, you have made a analytical exhaustion of vocalizing your exposition and I'm always kin to listen since the beginning of discovering you. Once again kudos lad!
He gets things 15% right in his non-alternate history videos
My man real life doesn't work like Victoria II or Europa Universalis IV LOL
>voting out the government
>free internet
>free society
how naive
This should be interesting! I love your predictions veru much!
India destined to become superpower bhai
@@ShivJ16 really?
Keynes predicted 100 years ago that we'd be able to live lives of leisure and instead we just filled our time with more work - how can you be sure that won't just happen again?
@Nicolai Myshkin Good lord, is your entire point of commenting just to say "liberals bad" because I have seen you in multiple replies and you always take the opportunity to try to make the left look bad for any reason.
@Nicolai Myshkin Keynes is literally the only reason the Capitalist system didn't get overthrown in a bunch of Fascist and Communist revolutions following one of its gigantic spasms lol
@@lukajolich7669 stay mad
Concerning AI. You absolutely underestimate it.
I work in a politics faculty at a university and theres at least 5 Projects involving AI at my Faculty alone. One is even about prediction of international Conflicts through AI with a 98% accuracy rate.
And this trend is all over all scientific fields and will continue to develop even further. A decade ago, the capabilities that todays neural networks could do, were unthinkable
Quick question but, do you ever watch the videos countering your points and ever take that into account in the future?
@@SnowyButterfly1 🤦♂️
You should really read more Early Modern history. France was the most powerful militarized state on Earth for like 250-300 years.
@@SnowyButterfly1 yeah, look up "Napoleon" lol.
Justthefacts did a solid critique video, kinda brutal too.
@@darken2417 have to peep that, thx
There are videos countering whatifalthist? Do they have a leftist political bias or are they neutral?
How does anyone think you’re a doomer.
You’re literally the optimistic person I watch.
The dude literally argues for a return to religion. How is that optimistic? Looking at the last 2000 years of Old World history that is one of the worst things to happen.
@「 Deadpoppin 」 Looking at the 2000 years of persecution of religious minorities, scamming, incitement of religious hatred, support for genocide and protection of pedophilia by the Catholic church and the literally hundreds of other crimes by other religions, I have to say I cannot follow your line of thinking.
I mean seriously? How are we not better off without those organizations in your mind.
@@antigonostiggokarchedonios4788 Well the kingdoms, theocracies etc of the medieval world never did anything as bad as the holocaust or the holdomor so there's that.
I feel the same way.
He talks about technology giving us powers comparable to the greek gods, doomers talk about eating roots to survive.
@@jcc7912 True, science does not give one direct values, although I would argue we can infer successful ones by looking at values emerging in different cultures and how successful those cultures became on the world stage. A prime example for this would be the Golden Rule. However it also does not offer any mechanism for justification or absolution for such acts either nor those it have a priest class which can abuse their power over the people, which is a major plus in my opinion.
I would honestly disagree with the notion that a pre-existing cultural value system is required to form morality. I have myself largely rejected the cultural values and morals that I have been raised with and socialized in and instead created my own, often in stark opposition to values within my cultural sphere. For example I disdain nepotism, while it is a fully accepted part of life in my home country. In turn, I also pick and choose from cultures I am exposed to, taking what I deem useful and discard what I deem not to be. If I can assemble my own values without the interference of some potentially criminal priest, why should not everybody else do the same.
To quote a very clever video game writer:" There is book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the path. Choose your own."
16:33 This first point especially here in italy is completely right. Fields used to be mostly corn and grain (which was the preferred gathering spots for crickets and green Bedbugs), however now with presence of soy fields in the north, a new race of hyper agressive chinese Brown Bedbugs has effectively genocided the green ones and effectively make the fields a mass gathering for these little feckers.
I'm an Orthodox Christian and I will tell you that Jesus absolutely is against sexual perversions. My church has been unchanged for 2000 years and to think that Jesus Christ would be fine with abortion, homosexuality or pedophilia is ridiculous. We have a direct progression from the Apostles of Christ, we can even tell which apostle started which church. I understand why you may think this way if you're a Protestant, and this is a theological difference, but in this case you're asserting your personal view of Christianity (which is kind of the problem with Protestantism).
To quickly debunk this idea that Christ is okay with perversions, or as you called it the lack of sexual repression, the New Testament does not exist without the Old. The whole idea of Christ is that He is mentioned in the Old Testament and fulfilled many prophecies from it, proving that Jesus was the Christ. And of course we know what Leviticus and Romans say about these things. Apart from this, the canon of the Bible comes from Orthodoxy, the very Bible you read is compiled by saints and the Ecumenical Councils from the Orthodox tradition. Without these you have no Bible.
There is nothing more false than this idea that Christ was a liberal hippie who said we should all do what we want as long as we don't hurt other people.
12:46 Ah yes. Holding the Balkans and the middle east. Clearly a beacon of stability
These regions are only unstable because the states that once ruled them broke down, back when they were part of the Ottoman Empire these regions were stable.
(Well, the Balkans is also unstable because of the clashes of civilization between Orthodox Christians & Muslims.)
@@fandomguy8025 Holding onto some of the world's most nationalistic countries has led to the collapse of the Ottomans in the first place. Unless the turks don't hold the Middle East and the Balkans under direct military control it will all implode, however overextending your army to this degree will cripple you economically which also leads to an implosion.
@@drgabe2908 No the collapse of the Ottomans was due to other forces, labor oversupply & elite overproduction that fed sectarian attitudes, like ethnic nationalism. The current nationalism of the Balkans, again, is due in part to such attitudes persisting but also the clash of religions that have fed them.
There is nothing "inherently nationalistic" about the people here, nationalism rises due to reasons.
If the Turks present themselves as defenders of Islam who will respect the people here there would be no need to use military coercion to unite with the Islamic parts of the Balkans.
Of course, as historically, this would likely take major outside pressure to be achieved, which is why Pan-Islamic caliphate attitudes have risen in the region due to Western pressure.
Corresponding with the postulates of Cultural Multilevel Selection (CMLS) theory:
Competition between groups (up to whole societies) fosters within-group cooperation.
Competition within groups (between their members) destroys cooperation.
The clash of Civilizations is necessary to promote internal unity.
I feel the whole population decline thing looks way too much at education and not at additional factors that will invariably change when the population actually declines. Such as people no longer feeling the world is too full already, and possibly being able to use their additional leisure time to actually have and raise kids.
I don't think that would be a major factor as I don't think "People thinking the world is too full" is a factor in why populations decline, it's simply that they don't need to have as many kids when you're kids don't die of disease often.
The Elite, who are the controlling manipulators, will head to their bunkers in the not too distant future, leaving the rest to fend for themselves as the next Ice Age descends at rapid speed across the northern hemisphere, slower across the southern, with the equatorial region much cooler, but escaping ice & snow.
@@alancharlton7892 sooooooooo is there an _actual problem_ somewhere in your whole blurb?
Asking as someone who actively longs for a "Faro Plague" type scenario...
And no, "hurr-durr big eco-tawk on kompooter" counts as neither problem _nor_ point.
Space colonization as well as building more skyscrapers would increase the population
@@christiandauz3742 Increasing the quality of life would increase the population. People are not chickens that you can just stack in cages!
"Have a single encompassing worldview, that of Reaganite Capitism combined with Social Justice" God that's depressing. We live in a world dominated by 2 of the worst ideologies ever.
Things to do this fall:
1) Piss on Reagan's grave
2) Get away with it
3) Do it again
@@etherealkraken2662 The only problem is that you eventually run out of piss
Agreed
That’s the Neoliberal World order: Faux progressivism with faux libertarianism.
Well good news, those asshats aren’t immortal!
"everyone who doesn't think capitalism is the best will be gone" lmao what
Richard D. Wolff, Paul Cockshott, Michael Parenti, Yanis Varoufakis, and especially the millions members of communist parties are not going to become "gone" (in terms of being taken seriously by literally anyone) soon.
@@jstevinik3261 Maybe, but de facto 95 % of the world is capitalist. Few exceptions exist like North Korea, which is, whatever one can even call them, the major distinctions are social democracy-conservative liberalism-authoritarian capitalism. Why do you think communism will arise again?
@@lilemont9302 Becuase of automation displacing working class peopele in which UBI wpuld be semi-inflationary and not enough to lice in some already expensive areas, climate change questioning modes of production needing constant growth, though centuries later but leveling of population would be detremental to economic need for an ever exanding consumer base
Also, Russia and some eastern European countries barely recovered from declines in qaulity life that began in the 1990s.
@@lilemont9302 Capitalism is great when trying to get to a post industrial economy due to its focus on short term growth, but if we want any sort of longevity this short term focus is just going to use up our resources. I don't know about communism, but a socialist economy would be ideal for an automated society because of its long term focus.
The correct phrasing would be "everyone who thinks that planned economies lead to more prosperity than market economies will be gone".
Capitalism is such a vague word that covers many more aspects than simply "market economy". Market economies don't have to be systems designed to channel wealth from the poor to the rich.
Greece and Syria seeing the map and sighing loudly
Hmmm I feel like immortality or just extending a humans life span wouldn't be shunned honestly.
Speaking of social engineering, I'd love to hear your views on the USA's legally imposed suburbanisation - where single family homes are not only the norm, but usually the only thing you're allowed to build
He would probably say it is the superior form of housing or something Uber American
@@ling636 it is cause fuck you that's why. But no seriously in America the political divide and western entitlement is so great that such a system is unfeasible except for being in a really small and close knit community that is heavily selective on who gets to move in. Don't know how it's "legally imposed" but that's my reason for why it still exists as the standard. Also it's to make urban developers more money. Can't have people joining together for one house when we can force them into 2
@@hirokasonova7059 it's legally imposed because most cities' planning regulations only permit the construction of single family houses. Even if you want to, you're not allowed to build anything else.
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The main reason for it being law is because the urban planners in the 40s and 50s were paid by the housing developers.
It's looks so much more pacific and comfortable, humans are desert animals, we need a certain distance between each other or families and we stress too much on high density homes.
The fact that this guy can be the 21st century Nostradamus and I'm watching him for entertainment really shows the industrial revolution and it's consequences...
Nostradamus wasn't 100% right on his predictions but at least it's quite entertaining
Even though I write short stories about humanity ending in calamity, I can't help but remind myself that we've survived multiple Ice Ages, an epic societal collapse, the fall of multiple centralized empires, brutal global wars and seemingly apocalyptical level natural disasters. If one thinks we can't tough it out through thermal nuclear war or possibly another ice age from climate change, I gotta say, they don't do their research.
they'll call it "SuRvIvOr BiAs!!!", but I will call it "Common Sense."
15:04 maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way
3:49 *So THATS’S the timeline we are currently in*
19:58 you nailed the explanation for the parties, just like dad explained lol
There is one thing to mention. Since the capitalist system needs wage labour to perpetuate it's existence, and a future world will eventually give up the current neo-ludditism that we have currently and instead accept it, something has to change. There simply won't be enough workers, as all the medial jobs will be cheaper to automate than pay human labour for, and I don't think the creative sectors will provide the jobs to balance that out. Thus such a world will go one of two ways: 1. The welfare state gets so big that capitalism fades out of existence because it is no longer necessary in this type of a world, or 2, it doesn't, and since jobs don't exist and people are still put onto positions of needing them, this turns into a dystopia, where capitalism turns to its authoritarian brother, Fascism, which works to distract Capitalism's faults away from itself and towards racial or social issues instead. I think once countries start accepting this transition and establishing decent UBI programmes, indicates the transition away from capitalism. People have been questioning their purpose for their work recently. We witnessed the Great Resignation this year, so I think people will embrace the new system once it's there, but currently are still instinctively against it at the moment. When people have less stressful lives, their health improves a lot directly from less stress related illnesses and indirectly, since they don't need to use the coping mechanisms that come with having stress. Capitalism was an improvement from feudalism, but it is by no means the best socioeconomic system we can have. I think as jobs become more scarce due to the economic incentives to automate jobs, I think people will come to a realisation that a new system is needed. Capitalism's last gasp will either be in the form of a social democratic welfare state, or a fascist state.
TRUE. im glad im not the only one that found his critiques of communism stupid and his defenses of capitalism idiotic
You have ALMOST convinced me to WANT to live through the 22nd Century.
I hope MOST of these things come true. !
i was just thinking about how i was looking forward to your next upload… worth the wait!
I watch your videos all the time whenever I’m having a bad day I’ll go back and watch one of your old videos. I honestly hope you can revisit some of them eventually with your new style
Ga damn man, same here..
You watch his videos when you're having a bad day in order to have a good day? He's honestly more optimistic than I can be un some respects, but as wouldn't exactly consider his videos something to go to for a pick me up. If anything, they remind me that the future is probably gonna suck, but it probably won't completely suck and might potentially be kinda cool and tolerable in some respects for anyone who manages to survive long enough to appreciate the benefits...
Unless you're talking about his actual alternate history videos. Those do put a smile on my face. I also just like maps, so I think of his alt-history maps like a game of what if stratego or risk.
I sorta agree with your trends.
Here are mine:
1 - "fall of the mainstream/mainstreet/wallstreet" people will move out of great centers to the rural areas for cheep land, starting with those who can work from distance and then attracting those in the service industry that can't. Same will happen with arts and culture.
People will coalesce over very small, solid and simple principles over very large areas, maybe even globally, but will be mostly tolerant of almost everything else, for business, meaning and boredom sake.
That in turn will keep draining the energy out of mainstream forces that attempt to exploit that need for unity.
The centralizing forces that survive will be the ones that facilitate that instead of trying to control it.
2 - Meaning, art, human connections in the most superficial way will take the place or organized religions, out with the traditional priest, imam, and in with the religious influencer. People won't follow a unifying teaching anymore and instead distil religion, meaning and awe from parasocial relationships with philosophers of disparate schools. The job of the local pastor will be to cater to so many different people in their need for worship. It's likely that heated debate will start being seen as a form of worship unto itself, or as a substitute for sermons. Playing nice while disagreeing will be a bigger value than dogma.
3 - Nation states as we know them will not be a thing, boarders will still exist, but parallel legal structures resembling city states will start becoming the norm, a sort of uber federalism. And such loyalties might be extra national. Gated communities will evolve into free market communes, each of them formed and united by their own way of life, likely forming and dissolving on their own due to environmental pressures.
Contracts will take quasi religious significance. Due to labor needs, such communities will likely be forced to have separated quarters for outsiders and eventually there will be a such "nomad generation".
4 - Almost all religions will go through a petersonian transformation, as they all go through a globalization phase in the way protestantism did. This will actually help major religions to stop hemorrhaging their flock, but will turn almost all major religions into an incomprehensible mess. Dogmatic communes might still exist, a-la the amish, but participation will be voluntary, with the worst punishments for breaking dogma being "exile", even in fundamentalist muslim communities. Gone will be the days of sanctioned religious killings for dogma breaking, specially of outsiders but also of insiders. All exiles will be backed by legal documentation, removing all foreign claims of illegality.
Whatifalthist is the guy that clicks on “Just…one…more…turn” for the entire world.
Civ 4 memories FeelsStrongMan
One big thing that'll change the world in 50 years you didn't mention is epigenetic treatments, basically changing how genes are used in the body. It will be the key to designer babies, growing custom organs for transplants, and treating diseases (not just genetic ones, i.e. obesity)
Source: I'm a medicinal chemist
24:30 I suspect sexual mores and relationship rules are one of the areas that is likely to get more restricted, or at least have higher social pressure to be married, largely because the sexes experience it in fundamentally different ways, and being in a contractually bound union seems to be the lowest stressor rate for both parties.
Basically, take a look at the suicide rates for single, married, and cohabiting women, then compare them to the suicide rates for single, married and cohabiting men. Singles of both sexes kill themselves at much higher rates, with married persons having the lowest. However, cohabiting women have been similar or worse than single women.
Men and women also have very different hormonal reactions to physical intimacy, with women generating large quantities of the bonding hormones over it, and the men, simply don't.
It frustrates me that no-one seems willing to discuss the basic biology of all of this, as though we can simply wish away the way our bodies work.
But, again, because of the biological differences between men and women, the exclusive contract bond seems to be the mode that most balances the contradictory needs of the two parties.
I agree with you on this.
Take for instance the Victorian Era, which is often mocked as a period of extreme restrictions for men and women concerning sex but never ask why.
The era prior to the Victorian Era, the Georgian Era was extremely sexually liberal for it's time and it led to extremes in STD rates and caused the rise of stricter religious practices because they were the only one that focused on the destruction sexual liberation brought to the various lower and middle classes.
The same seems to be happening now but it's a weird mess - more restrictions are being imposed on men sexually but fewer restrictions are being placed on women, as can be seen with the rise of sites like OnlyFans
This can't keep going - something's gotta give and we are going to see a breakdown somewhere down the line
But I want to live alone. I feel that's what my brain is best wired for. I don't really have a desire for relationships. I know this must be some kind of illness but that doesn't change anything.
John Doyle talks about this also the fact that pornography is biologically bad for the brain which he has a 2 hour video on with all the information
Marriage is broken, and no amount of gay people can fix it. The legal treatment of men in the dissolution of marriage is so bad that the institution will just go away, and people will just shack up. I also predict the rise of more doomer cultures, like Incels, as the internet drives us apart into our favorite virtual worlds with little to no actual physical interaction. Of course this will lead to population decline everywhere in the world, that does not embrace immigration.
@@HeortirtheWoodwarden Being Asexual/Aromatic is a preference, not an illness.
Can't wait to call your videos up in a few decades to see how they're holding up.
The interesting thing about MAD is it may not always be a certainty. As richer countries(US, China) advance it’s possible their defense systems could reduce the probability of destruction enough that they consider a nuclear war “winnable” especially vs poorer nuclear countries(India, Pakistan, North Korea) with relatively small arsenals.
This is always an interesting prospect to me.
There is always a chance that two countries are at each others throats, see a weakness in the other guys armor and pulls a surprise attack.
If the USA found a way to magically, using some new technology or hacking disable every North Korean nuke I think there would be a strong chance of the USA invading for instance.
It'll be interesting to see who pulls the trigger on this first in the next century, and the ecological disasters that result if any, depending on number of missiles or other methods used.
That has always been the case. MAD existed between US and USSR. Other countries didn't have enough nukes to cross the threshold of MAD. I mean US security umbrella protected Europe. European countries individually couldn't do enough damage to stop being conquered by Soviets.
@@alecshockowitz8385 You think China wouldn't involved if US invaded North Korea?
If that was the case US could've invaded before North Korea got nuclear technology.
@@apathak34 I mean, we did invade North Korea before they got Nukes and China pushed us back, then we push back again... it's called the Korean war. I don't think China presently would be as interested in making the same kind of sacrifices for their backwards little client state like they did then tho.
Technically, as of right now, the US and Russian arsenal count in the thousands each (numbers are always iffy cause russia 'misplaced' a few nukes when the USSR broke apart and both countries have blacksite bases out the ass) whereas China is only estimated to have around 260. Now, they'd be able to kill a major West Coast US city in a full blown exchange for sure, helped by the fact most of their arsenal is mounted to trucks for mobile launches and the US would rely on mainly subs and bomber formations with silo launch sites being siting targets. Due to the distances and American naval superiority (Pacific fleets would seek to intercept any missiles they could while subs would empty out their arsenals at basically point blank range close to China) and the much wider US detection net. The Aleutian islands, Hawaii, Guam, Marshall Islands, and navy stations are all much closer to launches to China than China is to launches in the US giving the US more reaction time in the event of being taken by surprise. Even if China made a first strike, the US would scramble every bomber we had world-wide, the entire pacific would be lit up with interdiction fire, and by the time the majority of our arsenals arrived in China via the bomber wings, they'd have long spent their entire arsenal and the US would have more than enough weapons to pick whatever sort of targets we wanted, cities, infrastructure (such as power grids) or military installations, where as the Chinese have to keep an extremely limited list of what they target. 100 nukes is not 100 dead cities, it's 90 nukes killed over the ocean, a few killed over your own airspace, a dud or two, and three or four actually hitting a city and killing people (or hitting four spread out military bases and no cities). Interception of missiles is way more effective than the actual missiles. You actually want to kill the most people, it'd be way easier to send a satellite fitted with a powerful EMP device (probably of nuclear design) and detonate it over North America, knock out our totally unshielded power grid. US gov did projections on such a scenario (or a solar flare such as another Carrington event) and within 2 years 98% of the population died without the power grid. Way more apocalyptic than a nuclear war.
Anyhow, even a full blown nuclear war using the entire arsenals of the US and China would not be a MAD scenario, China simply doesn't have enough nukes either. There are certainly elements of military command who would trade a handful of US cities for total obliteration of a rival super power. In the present landscape, hell no, it'd never happen, the top brass at the Pentagon would kill their mothers before they betrayed their loyalty to China. If we dug up General Macarthur or Dwight Eisenhower and let them look at LA and San Francisco today, they'd pull the trigger (knowing those cities would probably be gone) in a heartbeat.
amazing content as usual. I like your turn towards discussing the future, it’s good to get a mix of these videos and the alternate history stuff
Great video. The only thing I could add here is climate change. How it will affect us the rest of the century is not fully clear, but depending on how pessimistic the projections are, it can definitely create unpredictable social and political upheavals. The "Islamic World" is particularly vulnerable to this, but even developed countries that theoretically have the wealth and technology to absorb the impact can get wracked, not to mention potential "climate refugee" crises, and the potential rise of eco-fascist tendencies. I'm not saying it is the apocalypse, but that climate change can throw some unpredictable spanners into the current trends.
Climate Change will be THE trend of the 21st century.
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