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r/DarkFuturology examines dystopian trends, usually in relation to current events, promoting total freedom of speech. We emerged from growing dissatisfaction with the utopian tech-porn dominating r/Futurology. As well as mainstream dystopian topics, we also promote discussion of controversial subjects that too often lurk in shadows far from the accepted discourse. This is necessary for building a broad understanding of all issues faced by humanity in this century and, if we're lucky, the next...
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DarkFuturology examines dystopian trends. We emerged from growing dissatisfaction with the utopian tech-porn dominating Futurology.
What is the Dark Future?
The global ruling class is indifferent to the needs and dreams of the global masses. But when we're no longer required to reproduce, work, consume and pay taxes, what's next?
Automation, natural limits, and new inequalities will be the gamechangers of the 21st century. Our well-schooled world leaders maintain absolute silence on such crucial matters.
Imagine the ferocity of competition for wealth and status if the rewards were material luxury and extended lifespans and perfect offspring and supercharged bodies & minds.
Against the backdrop of energy scarcity and superpowerful AI, all necessary measures to protect power and privilege are now in place. But increasingly VUCA times are assured.
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Posts to be future-focused, with a dark element heralding a lasting negative impact on humanity/society.
Collapse stories to clearly imply an enduring dystopian trend, not merely relate specific events.
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User Flairs edited at top of sidebar: Surveillance, Biohazards, Environment, Resistance, Inequality, Nuclear, Singularity or Omega (Neo-Luddism).
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Within ten years, billions of dollars will be spent to combat the loneliness epidemic.
Within ten years, billions of dollars will be spent to combat the loneliness epidemic.
Last Time, On The Loneliness Epidemic
And Now, The Continuation
The first developed country to spend hundreds of millions of dollars at the loneliness epidemic is, unfortunately, not Japan. That is a country where a record-high 23 percent of the population have never married by the age of 50. Who knows how many of the 23% there have never been in a long-term committed relationship?
Anyways, the first country to spend so much money is South Korea.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/asia/south-korea-loneliness-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html
Program features:
Loneliness counselors available on a 24/7 hotline
Online platform for similar counseling
In-person visits, consultations, and follow-up measures
Expanded psychological services and green spaces
Nutritional meal plans for middle-aged and elderly residents
Dedicated “search system” to identify isolated residents who need help
Activities to encourage people to venture outside and connect with others, such as gardening, sports, book clubs and more
The gender relations dimension is as follows:
But the figures still speak to a larger problem that seems to impact middle aged and elderly men the most.
More than 84% of the lonely deaths recorded last year were male, more than five times the number of female deaths, according to the ministry. Men in their 50s and 60s made up more than half the total group, making them “particularly vulnerable to the risk of dying alone.”
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With appropriate commentary: https://youtu.be/9POTeqxmbOE
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Part 2 https://youtu.be/ZcWsDJX3EYY
Part 3 https://youtu.be/yIdkbMWd088
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Hard to not be dystopian. What do you think what is going to happen in the Middle East in the near future? It might well be very very grim.
Sorry if I sound pessimistic but since the events of October, one year ago, things have gone downhill and do not seem to want to stop this trend.
You all know this is true.
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