Thread: The Future: What Will It Be Like?

You're oversimplifying my standpoint as well.

And there is war too right now. And on a global scale things
are getting increasingly heated. So, who knows where that will end.
It's not exactly demilitarization.

There are a billion people starving at the moment, more than ever before.
Ressources are getting increasingly scarce, also due to the huge amount
of consumption - check out the meat industry, it's horrifying in my view.
The most basic needs (food, water) are becoming increasingly problematic
and this doesn't neccessarily have to stay within the underdeveloped countries.

It is next to impossible to have a well informed public debate, because the
media corporations are so very bias in what and how they present which issues.
(I usually mean foreign policies and EU-Law) I see a bad tendency in the
direction the ties between ecnomics and politics are heading anyway. It just
very obviously shows that oh so many decicions are indeed based on
economical interest or lobbyism or the need to get re-elected on the next
term (Which came very well to show during the financial crisis). And so many
countries are basically still circling down the drain, but this is often not admitted.
Are all politicans like that? Certainly not. But more than it would be healthy.
But please, present me with a few politicans, who are right now selflessly
trying to improve things, I would be more than happy to see that you're right.

In my opinion the more recent decisions in the EU (which is basically a
corporatized political body) are reaons for critical debate as well. Not only
the incredibly one sided portrayal of the lissabon treaty, but things like
SWIFT for example. The speed we are distancing ourselves away from a
democracy should be troubelling. (Stuff like that the judges in the EU are
not independently voted into their positions by the peoples, but chosen by
the governments of all institutions. This is a fundamental crack in democracy)

Although I am a very positive person, on the level of global policies, environmental
issues and economics I am not seeing much to be positive about. I am not full of hatred
or just basically opposed to 'authority' or just complaining so that I have something
to complain about, but because I do see major problems at the moment and I think it
could be dangerous if there is an 'everything is just a-ok' consensus in the public,
because we have to be cautious right now, imo.

But don't get me wrong, you are of course absolutely free to have your own
opinion and my intention is not to drag you down or anything, trust me. However
I am genuinly interested in how you think things are improving. I just really
don't see it. But maybe I perceive things a little bit dark at the moment, because
I am just reading about all of that pretty much every day.