/r/DarkFuturology
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.
RULES
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.
FLAIRS
Link Flairs to be added to existing posts by clicking "flair" below the title.
User Flairs edited at top of sidebar: Surveillance, Biohazards, Environment, Resistance, Inequality, Nuclear, Singularity or Omega (Neo-Luddism).
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TRUMP TAKES ON CHINA | Deepseek R1 Techno Nationalism | RFK Jr & MAHA Under Attack! | EOs on FIRE
15:50 UTC
Old World Schenectady, New York
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What have you done over the last five years? Here's my take on where I've been and what I've seen.
07:29 UTC
Future major news events bingo starterpack
18:48 UTC
OPENING THE STARGATE | TRUMP DAVOS SHOWDOWN | Welfare Eugenics & Digital Colonialism at Warp Speed
10:06 UTC
2075 and the planet has been saved! starterpack
14:28 UTC
Low Western birth rates starterpack
16:26 UTC
Karmageddon: The new song by Iyah May tells everything you need to know about the collapsing societies of late stage capitalism
18:25 UTC
TRUMP'S NEW GOLDEN AGE | ORDO AB CHAO | TikTok Ban, The Quantum Leap & The United Snakes of America
08:58 UTC
Don't beLIEve The Matrix48
07:37 UTC
The social cost of modern technology (how it is rotting society)
13:17 UTC
The story of the 21st century will be the End of Abundance
As global population increased, so did the extraction of finite resources.
Several hundred billionaires were created by exploiting these resources and billions of workers.
Those finite resources would enable global growth only up to a certain point.
From that point onwards, there would be a gradual decline of available resources and therefore economic activity.
That means global population would have to be calibrated downwards accordingly.
Starting with the populations in economies which consume the most resources.
Managing the housing supply would be the principal means of restricting birth rates.
People would need grand justifications to accept losses of freedom, choice and prosperity.
Gradual, prolonged economic decline could include a range of selling points.
A shortening work week. Cleaner air. Improved health. And the planet would be saved.
12:25 UTC
VERY WEIRD | LA FIRES EXPLODE, Trump & WEF Kick off Agenda 2030 2nd Strike | Year of the Phoenix
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Worldcoin (Now Called World) a crypto currency that requires bio-metrics
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VERY WEIRD | 2025 IS OFF TO A CRAZY START!
08:18 UTC
Old World Binghamton New York
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Don't beLIEve The Matrix47
09:23 UTC
The Venus Project will be announcing an alternative to the dark future on January 1st
I might be able to offer some teasers in response to questions. I have met with the project leader. He is Simon Michaux and he has plenty of videos from the last few months which outline it pretty well.
15:42 UTC
Simon Michaux's blueprint for the new human civilization as the globe transitions to scarcity (24min)
14:54 UTC
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