Dieselpunk + Steampunk Culture
How would you like to see the world in the future?
Many of us wonder about the future and what it holds, what would you like to see the future become?
Posobilities:
Post-Apocolyptic: we all know this is possible to be living in the post apocolyptic future, wasteland everywhere little of anything. Portraied in movies and games but how would it REALLY turn out?
The idea of post apocolyptic could lead mahy ways as it is essentially a new begining, could lead to revisiting eras over again revisiting the old west etc. As well as a completly dieselpunk ideology of everything is made from whatever you can find, living in shanty towns etc.
Atlantis/Rapture: The threat of global warming draws nearer everyday will the planet flod and will we become the new atlantis? living in submarines and underwater worlds?
The atlantis and flod idea also creates the possibility of Airships. also the idea of the movie waterworld.
Some of us maby dont need a world disaster to occur. maybe we just hope the world will start reliving eras through and through. you see reliving an era with fashion but not thecnology.
in my oppinion we are too advanced now, i feel now we have all these technologys we lack in social communication and some lives are overcome with now the need not to leave our homes, we can essentially live inside work from home shop from home and talk to all our friends from home, get all the news of the outside world etc. i think now everyones competing and if somone does somthing somone eles dosent like its simple enough to call a war or nuclear strike.
however!!! without going into this on a grim basis!!!
i am undecided on how i would like the world to be... a mix sounds good =P what are your views on absolutly anything ive said hehe!
Tags: Airship, Apocolyptic, Atlantis, Dieselpunk, Future, Post, Rapture, Steampunk
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Permalink Reply by Tome Wilson on -
You bring up an interesting point. The starkest contrast of old-to-new is only seen when the old must be rebuilt. A good example of this is the great Chicago fire.
However, the future I see is the one we build. It is inspired by us, by the community, and is driven by discipline not by despair. What I'm saying is, we don't need an apocalypse to rebuild. We simply need people with vision, focus, and determination.
Don't rebuild the world. Rebuild your world.
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy Iowa on -
well put, and insparational. i jst like the idea of post apocolyptyia haha im pretty wierd tho haha but yes very valid point tome and good call! =]
Tome Wilson said:You bring up an interesting point. The starkest contrast of old-to-new is only seen when the old must be rebuilt. A good example of this is the great Chicago fire.
However, the future I see is the one we build. It is inspired by us, by the community, and is driven by discipline not by despair. What I'm saying is, we don't need an apocalypse to rebuild. We simply need people with vision, focus, and determination.
Don't rebuild the world. Rebuild your world.
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Permalink Reply by Beauregard on -
Tome Wilson said:However, the future I see is the one we build. It is inspired by us, by the community, and is driven by discipline not by despair. What I'm saying is, we don't need an apocalypse to rebuild. We simply need people with vision, focus, and determination.
Don't rebuild the world. Rebuild your world.
While the term "Rebuild your world" is more than true and I am constantly thriving for this, my view of what is to come is rather pessimistic. Maybe I'm painting the picture a little too black but I think (and actually do so since my teen days) is that mankind is - exaggerated speaking - more or less doomed for failure. Hopefully not in my lifetime but I don't think "we" (mankind) will get things straight and it's some kind of downward spiral we're in. All over the world smaller (civil) wars will appear and the destrutcion of earth itself won't be stopped until something far worse than BP's oil catastrophe happens.
Don't get me wrong - I hope for another future but I just can't imagine that the (mostly) greedy, selfish and ugly face of mankind (sure there are exceptions) will come to see that they have to change.
Again exagerrated speaking - the world and makind can only be "reborn" (so to say) through fire (hahahaaarrrrr!). Some kind of phoenix from the ashes. Something really bad has to happen to overthink the way to go.
Besides that I'm not the kind of guy who gives up hope and I am actively trying to do sth (e.g. being active in an ecology group etc.), I just am happy to live now and not in a hundred years.
So, the future I see is clearly post-apocalyptic. While I, too, like this "setting" in a weird way, hehe (I'm a sucker for Mad Max stuff etc.) I have to admit that when it comes hard I don't really want to live in these future wastelands. Ok, maybe if there won't be radiation or plagues I might overthink that ;-)
The future I would LIKE to see then is one where technology and money will have less importance and big cities will scramble, makind coming back to some kind of living in smaller villages, settlements or even tribes. Not "tribes" in an jungle/indian or wahtever way - no, the comfort of some of inventions over the last decades surely are great. But I would like to see coming back to living more in commune with nature generally. Again, the problem of resources will appear then but as this is about "what I would like", I just leave that apart for now, hehe ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Tome Wilson on
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@Beauregard - While I admire your ambition, I feel that you're blinded by the forest.
None of us are supervillians (although Jonny B works for one). We're not going to change "the" world. We're are solely responsible for ourselves. With this in mind, we can only truly change "our" world.
Become the man you wish to be. Set the bar high and don't stop until you reach your goal.
If you have the determination and discipline to change your world for the better, in turn, others will admire what you've done and do likewise. People need someone to look up to. They need to know that they have the ability to change and grow in realistic ways.
In other words, people don't need faith, they need truth.
The majority of people simply need to comfort of knowing that someone else went first and came back alive before they'll begin their own change.
The people that don't change, that don't grow into something better will eventually grow old and die unfulfilled.
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Permalink Reply by Beauregard on
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Tome Wilson said:@Beauregard - While I admire your ambition, I feel that you're blinded by the forest.
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Hmm, maybe you have mistaken me - the future I would like to see is one I think will never happen ;-) It's just what i would wish for but don't think will ever be possible... Something tells me the future won't be bright but very dark and mean - alas, a little glimpse of hope ist still in me and this is what keeps me striving in my ambitions. And - who knows - maybe some kind of uproar and protest will rise and show the "wanna-be-bosses of the world" that their end is near ;-) *raises-his-fist*
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Permalink Reply by Myke DeArden on -
Jimmy-
While our advanced technologies have created a new environment, I don't necessarily think that this creates any new problems for us as humans.
I'm sure that when man created the first bronze sword, everyone thought that it could destroy the world.
Our environment has changed quite a bit, but I think we'll continue on the same way we have since time immemorial. We'll have wars and peace, sickness and health, light and darkness, pleasure and pain. Ultimately we'll make it out the other side.
It's up to us as individuals to choose whether we dwell in the light or not. Like Tome said, we create our own future. All ends are possible. You may choose where your path lies.
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Permalink Reply by Tome Wilson on
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Beauregard said:
Hmm, maybe you have mistaken me - the future I would like to see is one I think will never happen
It's not possible, because the future you envision requires the cooperation of hundreds, if not thousands of individuals. And we all know that a person can be as smart as his smartest idea, but groups of people are always as dumb as their dumbest idea.
Like I said, shake your fist, but it's better if you put a hammer in it first. Do something meaningful. Make a statement. The sheep will follow.
Just be careful when the sheep start picking up the hammers (see sentence #2).
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Permalink Reply by Athenaprime on -
Apocalypse, just like salvation, is always ten years out.
The reason this is so, is because while we are constantly expressing our vision for the future--be it an apocalyptic one or a new utopia--it's impossible to anticipate either, because no plan ever survives contact with the enemy, so to speak. In our case, the "enemy" is time. Thing about human beings is--we always surprise ourselves. We come out of left field, do the zany, the illogical, the crazy and yes, the backwards and cruel, too. We are never what we expect. We just don't know ourselves that well.
We do lose old modes of social interaction...but never doubt that those are being replaced by new ones. A community might once be individuals thrown together by geography and income bracket. Now it's more intentional--people group online according to their interests. Yes, we lose "face time" but we gain meaning in shared interest and idea exchange--one might be the only rocketry enthusiast in one's neighborhood, but share new ideas about construction integrity with like-minded and knowledgeable folk all over the planet. Yes, we gain a "tribe" of like-minded, but we lose diversity to a certain extent, when we only congregate with those that think like we do.
Apocalypse or salvation...our story is not over. Renovation projects go on now where the historic buildings are preserved and/or updated--and master craftsmanship allows them to be so--while the prefab buildings of 20 or 30 years ago see the wrecking ball because the fast-track utilitarianism failed the test of time. Organic farming/local produce is seeing a resurgence as a boutique industry where once it was the purview of the rural unable to access the march of modernity in the grocery aisle. We constantly redefine ourselves. We change the narrative through acts as large-scale as a national initiative to end childhood obesity, or as personal as choosing to make a new skirt out of an old army rucksack instead of buying one.
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Permalink Reply by Pilsner Panther on -
I'm not too particular, I'd just like to be around to see it. Everything else is icing on the cake.
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