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>>384105 Not really. Then we'd just see all the Slipknot, Insane Clown Posse and maybe Nickleback fans crawl out of the woodwork to take over. Also, we'd lose many talented creators, as well as parents that actually weren't bad and make good grandparents. Younger generations I keep blaming myself for because I don't know how to properly use my ability to entrance youngsters and get them to pay attention to things on a reasonably large scale. I mean I guess I should maybe make some educational entertainment series?
Looking up the generations mentioned on Wikipedia, I came upon the notion of the Strauss–Howe generational theory and have decided that refraining form overprotecting our own children while also making sure not to indulge our grandchildren too much may be a way to avoid the following prophet generation from becoming too severe and thus from setting up as bad of a crisis. Barring life extension stuff, that crisis is projected to be two generations after most of us are dead. For instance, I really think we have a responsibility to both learn and teach about what with wrong with communes and rampant recreational drug use. Admitting some of our own embarrassments to our kids wouldn't hurt either. And trying to build strong AI machines capable of lasting centuries for the purpose of gaining vast experience and perspective beyond that feasible by humans, again barring extreme life extension? I've long been interested in that anyway.
Something I'm getting out of this is that I apparently need to hold back a bit in my midlife simply because if I make things too luxurious it'll cause a generation that won't grow up till I'm super old to be a bunch of donks? That sounds kind of hard, I love making cool stuff. Maybe I'll put it all in dungeons, and people will have to fight through robots and solve puzzles to get to it.
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