Padawanbater2
Well-Known Member
Things like 9-11, Osama Bin Ladin's death, major political events, events that shape history.. Do you keep track of them in any kind of personal way? I've known people who go pick up the newspaper when a major event happens, the Challenger explosion, just random stuff that makes national headlines..
I'd like to start doing this, at 25, in 2012, Curiosity just landed on Mars, stuff happens every couple years. I was thinking about starting some kind of historical logbook, to look back on and remember exactly how I felt during a specific time or event. Who knows what might happen, it would be interesting to look back 40 years from now on all the Y2K type stuff that's going to happen from now till then, random predictions.. I can imagine the book somebody with the same idea might have created from the 60's on! lol, hopefully it'll be just as interesting!
I'm predicting the collapse of the United States, I mean, as we understand it to be today, within the next 20-30 years.. It's sad, but I'm just trying to be realistic, I don't think there's much that'll be able to save the economy at this point..
Presidents will try but it'll be futile.. The housing bubble collapsed, the college bubble is going to follow within 3-5 years. Our economy is in a state of turmoil. China will take the dominant economic lead around 2020 and America will hopefully recover around 2030-2040 and emerge again as a competing world power, but I don't know shit about world economies or commerce, so this is all wishful thinking. I just hope I don't spend my 30's, 40's & 50's on in some scarce resource type poverty, scrounging for resources just to survive... But honestly, the way it looks at the moment, that scenario isn't some distant dystopian future.. Politicians of the present don't give a damn about people, they just care about their families and what'll ensure their power in the world.. There are enough gullible people still buying the American dream story who support and vote for em, so that's the world we live in..
I think there's some kind of change going on, a lot of people seem to be getting used to info from the internet, where a lot of the restrictions from previous sources prevented real information from being seen. So hopefully in a year or two we'll see some dramatic changes. This is the most effective tool we can use these days, imo..
I'd like to start doing this, at 25, in 2012, Curiosity just landed on Mars, stuff happens every couple years. I was thinking about starting some kind of historical logbook, to look back on and remember exactly how I felt during a specific time or event. Who knows what might happen, it would be interesting to look back 40 years from now on all the Y2K type stuff that's going to happen from now till then, random predictions.. I can imagine the book somebody with the same idea might have created from the 60's on! lol, hopefully it'll be just as interesting!
I'm predicting the collapse of the United States, I mean, as we understand it to be today, within the next 20-30 years.. It's sad, but I'm just trying to be realistic, I don't think there's much that'll be able to save the economy at this point..
Presidents will try but it'll be futile.. The housing bubble collapsed, the college bubble is going to follow within 3-5 years. Our economy is in a state of turmoil. China will take the dominant economic lead around 2020 and America will hopefully recover around 2030-2040 and emerge again as a competing world power, but I don't know shit about world economies or commerce, so this is all wishful thinking. I just hope I don't spend my 30's, 40's & 50's on in some scarce resource type poverty, scrounging for resources just to survive... But honestly, the way it looks at the moment, that scenario isn't some distant dystopian future.. Politicians of the present don't give a damn about people, they just care about their families and what'll ensure their power in the world.. There are enough gullible people still buying the American dream story who support and vote for em, so that's the world we live in..
I think there's some kind of change going on, a lot of people seem to be getting used to info from the internet, where a lot of the restrictions from previous sources prevented real information from being seen. So hopefully in a year or two we'll see some dramatic changes. This is the most effective tool we can use these days, imo..
