Elder millennial here. I knew I was in an earth destroying dystopia the entire time.
Yeah we grew up causing and then fixing an ozone hole.
(1953) The War of the Worlds
(1966) Fahrenheit 451
(1973) Soylent Green
(1984) 1984
(1999) Matrix
(2004) Children of Men
(2012) The Hunger Games
(1984) 1984
Thanks for the list, ChatGPT.
Also if you want to be an asshole, the title is Nineteen Eighty-Four.
its 1984 arsehole
i think i saw that one. whole lotta booty in it
Hmm, I think you’ve got a mistake in there bud. /s
It’s a fair joke.
Educated people saw the 2020 vision as far back as 1950s. They warned us many times, but we never listened.
“we”
You mean the rich and powerful who could’ve solved the systemic environmental issues didn’t, who got it told directly all the time. Who could’ve done something against Exxon and the others. Don’t lump the masses together with such assholes.
I mean ‘we’ as everyone collectively, as society. It’s just manner of speaking. I wasn’t even alive for most of the time frame mentioned, so I’m perfectly aware not everyone was actually able to ‘listen’ to the warnings.
There /is/ a large portion of the masses who are perfectly aligned with the goals of the rich and powerful and are happy to shit on their own doorstep for even a moment’s convenience
Propaganda, indoctrination, and de-education, especially when applied over generations, are a hell of a force.
I mean… people have been calling the apocalypse since ancient times. Because that’s reality. Every civilization falls, every society fails, and it’s often via war and violence. We simply have been able to become more connected and harm each other on larger scales over time.
And when exactly did humanity ever had the power to destroy the planet prior to the industrial revolution?
You’re just repeating one of the usual shit arguments climate deniers are spouting daily.
We still don’t have the ability to destroy the planet. We just will make it uninhabitable for the number of humans that are currently here, which has happened quite a lot in human history.
I think I’d cum if I stepped into that 2000’s future. Place looks hella cool. 1950’s future just looks like car dependent AI slop and 1980’s future looks really bright and light polluting
i mean, this mostly applies to american mindset. “work hard” is a function of progress; in the absence of progress, it stops making sense. and people who only knew how to work hard their entire life suddenly see that way of life ending.
there’s a lot of americans who think that way. “work hard and you can make it”. nah
a lot of people are realising that hard work != success. A lot of people are quiet quitting and other shit.
Quiet quitting fell out of favor when businesses simply started laying people off. Wild how that works.
i wish my personality let me do that. i’m kinda loud. i wrote a (bad) song about that stupid boss and played it at open mic night.
Bizarre lack of reflection
Well, if we had risen up against the rich, instead of letting them rule the world at least the last image would have been avoided.
Keep dreaming m8
I see we’re still being optimistic in the last panel. Why isn’t everything on fire?
I guess there’s some solace or hope to be found in the fact that all the previous predictions weren’t accurate?
“We can take shelter from the flesh-eating mutants inside the data center!”
gets turned into hamburger by the automated turrets protecting the data center
Sounds basically like an average run of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, lol.
If Project Zomboid would let me build a gigantic mobile zombie murder base like you can in CDDA, I would be so happy.
Curious if this is from a game? I tried to do an image search and the AI says it’s just some AI art and not from anything but I had those half life 2 vibes.
it’s from Ai art,sir
Search up Simon Stalenhag, they made a bunch of art that might interest you
Understandable, but ysk that it is an illusion. You always think the past was better than it is now.
The 1970s and 80s sadly was the start of the apocalyptic shithole future. Look up cyberpunk. The 90s economic computer boom really lead to a lot of optimism, but that is long gone now.
Last time the wealth disparity before rich and poor was anywhere close to current one, we call it “medieval dark ages”.
Accurate
The 2000’s future is so unsettling.
I was listening to that old song called Dust in the Wind by Kansas and there’s that line that goes nothing lasts forever but the Earth and Sky, and I thought, those lucky bastards thinking that the Earth and sky would last forever, what a comfort that would be. I can deal with the natural inevitability of death, but knowing that the Earth will die because we’re killing it really fucks me up.
The Earth will be fine. Humans, not so much.
You might want to read the old book Earth Abides. Sure, humans may screw things up, but just like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, the planet will be just fine.
