Born too late to be killed in a siege for a castle I work around.
Too early to die in a fire accident aboard my transport ship to my corporate slave workplace.
Just in time to be a corporate slave.
The first and second images are fantasy.
How come everyone wants to imagine the future is great and the past was great (it wasn’t, it’s literally just now but worse), but nobody wants to imagine what they could do to make now better?
Now replace the future with how Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 looks like.
The middle ain’t ever comin’ my guy
And the fist one we’d still be the peasants not knights.
Still think it would be more fulfilling to plant crops rather than “keeping the KPI up”, “limiting the exceptions rate” or “moving a button 3px to the left”…
Give it a try using ancient tech and get back to me after you come back to the city because your back is completely fucked.
Also, add in the drastically higher incidence of parasites and plague!
“Baby, you’ve got a stew goin’!”
Plus, probably still required to do military service, only you get no armor and face knights in full plate who have trained their whole lives to kill you.
I’m glad to live in a time when full plate armor is no longer necessary to approach a woman safely.
The future represented in this image has little chance of actually happening: it is the mythology of fossil fuel powered capitalist society, which has expanded past the planet’s environmental limits but needs to expand somewhere, or admit it is at the end of its useful life.
Do we think that’s actually true, though? Life, all life, has a tendency to spread out when a niche is open in a new environment which it can fill, and there’s nothing shown there that isn’t technically within the bounds of humanity. Before capitalism, before humans were even Homo sapiens, we were already migrating out of Africa and into Eurasia. The drive to explore is, in my opinion, deeply human, and nothing says that the model of that exploration or expansion needs to be capitalistic. We wouldn’t have colonized the world in prehistory if it did.
Life has a tendency to spread when new environments are available, yes.
But beyond this planet, there are no other environments. You might say the rest of the universe is antivironment. There is a wide range of possible conditions, of radiation and tempurature, gravity and molecular composition. Life requires a very very narrow and specific set of those conditions to continue.
Going from one continent to another, within the same atmosphere, with the same underlying set of conditions, is not all that much of a change. Actually leaving the planet? Permanently? And without just dying in the attempt? That would require a level of organization, long term planning (like, centuries long term), and resource management that we as a species have yet to demonstrate.
At least we have air conditioning
Nah, the past was filled with peasants dying of infections and dysentery. The future will just be the Pony Express crew from Mouthwashing. Honestly, I don’t even know what member I’d choose to be since they all went out horrifically.
Bold of you to assume the guys crewing that spaceship aren’t just doing some job they hate to pay the bills
What kind of slop is the second image!
Yeah Like who would kiss in full armor. She’s not even kissing the guy she’s just missing the metal.
Yeah I don’t think that’s going to be the future.
It’s going to look more like those space images of Venus.
I hate to break it to you. But if you were born back then, you wouldn’t be a knight. You wouldn’t be an explorer. You’d be a peasant. Working your farm from birth to grave.
I feel like everyone saying op is glorifying the past and future seems to be missing the fact that this is a shitpost.
