What aspects of our world and culture will be seen as primitive and barbaric by future people?

Question

Just as we look back and picture how primitive and barbaric we once were.

Also what do you think the future REALLY will be like?

Answer 1

The way we treat children as chattel. And how stupid Yahoo is. See below (which comes up before I even type anything.)

And Yahoo saith:

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Answer 2

if you mean arabs by future people, well, someone already mentioned wiping with toilet papers, it's extremely barbaric, you should use water. what you call free s*x too. voting and democratic election, ancient greeks saw that as barbaric, actually democracy means the authority of the barbaric public.

so we need, water, free marriage, and anarchy for a better future.  

Answer 3

it has to be government.todays society canot go on as it is.we are crowding ourselves out,when this is realized there will be an age limit.just guesing but you know im right.45 is my best guese.any ways enjoy this depresion.  

ps see you on the other side

Answer 4

I believe that their is a pendulum effect in society as it moves forward. At times things go to far in one direction and then swing back to the other direction. Depending on which part of the future, you are referring to, much of what we do will be considered primitive and barbaric.

Atheists and theists will separate at some point. As we move into space, more atheists will be the colonizers of space and religion off world will become a non-issue. The religious will remain to occupy this planet and fight out their minor and major wars over the foolishness that can be found on the news on any given day.

Both religion and philosophy will be replaced as our collective intelligence grows over hundreds and thousands of years.

Answer 5

Oh God where to start.

What a bunch of small minded, weak willed, stuck in mysticism bunch of people we will seem to be.

Still stuck with remnants of age old superstition and frightened of entering the forest.

Answer 6

Well, for starters, whiling away precious hours on Y!A.

Answer 7

I don't want to start this huge chain reaction, but I would say religion.

Answer 8

Being born.

Futuristic

Answer 9

Our obsession in determining the "how" to the determent of the  "why"

Answer 10

If there is a future, then terrorism and all these ethnic cleansing and holy wars…because we think medieval witch hunting and the crusades and the colonization of Africa, Asia and South America and the slave trade are barbaric and rather uncivilized.

I think sexuality will finally find its freedom in the future, though.

The future will be full of steel architecture and flying cars and highly fashionable dresses on one hand; and wastage and poverty and barren landscape on the other.

Answer 11

Within the next 100-200 years today's predominantly allopathic and pharmaceuticals -driven healthcare systems will be regarded as laughable and tragically ineffective. Holistic healthcare and preventive medicine will be the mainstream norm and as a result people will in general be far fitter and healthier than now and lifespans of 90 - 100 will be regarded as commonplace.

As a result, many people will choose to work until their late seventies and even into their eighties.

Answer 12

I feel like religious wars and racism will be regarded as ridiculous. I mean, people invading a different country solely to kill people who are not the same as them? Or killing someone just because they look different? Sounds ridiculous now and I'm hoping the future will bring a more open-minded/tolerant outlook of the world.

Answer 13

Wiping our asses with paper will be seen as extremely primitive in just 100 years. It's just slightly better than using leaves or sand. Truly hygienic people would use water.  

Answer 14

I can't see in to the future...

maybe they'll see that as primitive :P

Answer 15

Religion...

After lots more is scientifically proven and they've found ways to live longer ..

Less fear of death + facts = gone religion!

Answer 16

Abuse of democracy by noisy minority groups.

There is no true measure of majority preference.

Silent majority is ignored.

If we are willing to improve on democracy, then in the future there will be checking mechanism in place to decide what percentage of population is actually behind the new decision.

Secret voting involving every major decisions.

Answer 17

In the future, scientists will continue to discover how insignificant we are, and how the idea of God is more and more unlikely. Nanobots will make everyone a perfect human, and everyone will be able to mold their faces and bodies to perfection. This sort of technology will basically make everyone more and more like each other, unless there is a big divide of haves/have nots of technology.

I think we will look back on persecution as being barbaric, as reasons for persecuting people will go away. War between humans will also seem stupid, as we'll probably have other threats, some accidentally man-made, to deal with.

However, in my opinion, the future is not soon. There are many interesting technologies coming up, such as invisibility, nanobots are probably in the works, robotic exoskeletons... however I think it'll be a long time until crazy tech like this is perfected, and I think that in a few hundred years there will be a leap in technology where a lot of stuff is discovered at once, probably with a new power source too.

And when VR is invented everyone will re-live the good old days of the 21st century! Well in seriousness when VR is invented most people will never come out of their own worlds again.

Answer 18

All wars fought over the centuries, acts of genocide, concentration camps, religion, all aspects of pseudoscience, discrimination (based on age, gender, colour, sexuality, or class,) anti-abortion, and the list goes on.

Answer 19

The ease in which you can get your hands on a gun for one especially in the USA

The future will most likely be a one world government or just a few,

If you are not productive you do not live

Maybe

Answer 20

A complete paradigm shift or a revolution of thought is called for if our current notion of barbarism and primitiveness is to change. This is all too common for us to denounce exploitation, dictatorship, wars, abuse of human rights, and monopoly of physical resources. But could this be possible that the entire mindset is changed in some way?

Presently, we see things, as in pro western political traditions, democracy as an ideal, or near ideal, system of government, that is commonly based upon the election into power of people who could best represent their masses. This means to say that like people like the one who rule them. It is said that democracy is the system wherewith heads are counted and not weighed for their individual worth. There are systems of government as for instance Plato’s concept of elitism, but by far democracy is what we have and any autocratic government, however by the best minds, is considered bad as against democratic tradition. May be in the future democracy would be regarded as a primitive way of governance of human affair where much insightfulness would be need to address the needs of the populace in the future.

Then I see that our current knowledge, and tradition of knowledge, is mainly of materialistic nature. What we mean by knowledge is mainly what we can comprehend through our senses, learn through experience and develop by extensive experimentation. I have beginning to feel as if we have run out of our capacity to know any more than we have already known. We cannot for instance understand the nature of life, origins of the universe, the atom, and time merely by the use of our current physical methods of exploration.

May be in the future people will realise how futile an attempt it was to try to melt copper in a vassal that itself was made of copper. We cannot see for instance know the nature of light, as we aspire to harness its power, because particles of light is all we have to see, and neither can we learn about the atom the me and you are made of, because there is nothing smaller than atomic particles to see with, and the same is true for the universe, as we do not find, in our conventional scientific means, anything greater than the universe to use as a perspective.

It would seem as baric, and not only bad, to be proud, to be arrogant, deceitful, ignorant and wasteful, as all these are the symptoms of an ailing heart, mind and soul. But I think in the future it would be seem very primitive to stay stuck in the middle of a nowhere, with nothing but an freezing and bleak endlessness of space all around, in the middle of time the ultimate bounds of which are completely beyond our comprehension, in this life the true nature of which we cannot understand despite the fact that this is all we have. Then it is also very primitive to be me, as what I am, for instance, without knowing as who I really am!

Answer 21

LOL. We lived in an age of myths and fairy tales and thought we were so important and infallible that whatever we believed was true and there was no need for introspection.

Answer 22

I can see our dependency on oil, junk food and eatting meat being considered as primitive and barbaric by future generations.

Answer 23

youth street culture, consumerism, obsession with falsities. kids knifing each other in the street because of trivial matters, goverment opression,factory farming .........