To all 50+ GLP-ers: Did you ever imagine when you were young you would make it to 2022 and what would it be like?

Yeah I thought it was gonna be awesome : / facepalm :

...nor how the media would enable it through mass manipulation.

It truly is mass psychosis we are seeing.

Damn straight. Very hard to undo that damage.

Nope. Went by in the blink of an eye really.

Was an early awakened born again Christian seeking alternate news and truths some 30 years ago.

With that said, I new we were all screwed by the money changers and super rich long ago.

Early in my years there was a daily/magazine though we were introduced to in school.

It was call the Weekly Reader I think. I do recall back then long ago they were showing the 2000s to be just like you stated.

It is very sad, where I grew up is much worse than it was when I was a kid. No upgrades of anything Industrial wise besides smart phones, shitty cars, computers, tv, video games, etc.

We were young and truly free. That was before CONgress and all these politicians dug into the US Treasury aka and Fed Reserve insider trading, huge govt contracts to associates and family members.

The LOVE of Money truly is the root of all evil.

2022 does seem very futuristic to me. I remember back in jr. high in science class there were pictures in the textbooks of cars of the future that looked like the old Ford Taurus and Mitsubishi Eclipse. Now they're even in the rearview mirror. I don't think anyone seen smartphones coming, not even Star Trek writers.

I also remember the song "In The Year 2525" playing on the radio all the time. What an eerie and prophetic song.

Its all g op i thought the old world would end and a new evolution would begin 10 years ago, how naive of me.

You bet. I still have not figured out how they solved it in Star Trek. Some dystopian solution I'm sure.

Or the impact of social media which is basically anti-social.

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In 1979 I had a vision that society would get so collectivly intelligent that the average person would not be able to function alone.
People would have to be in a hive to function with some A I assistance.

Goofey LSD... blotter

That guy was great! Used to watch him and his wife Roxella on TV in the 90's.

I'm afraid the collective is heading to idiocracy instead...

The dumbing down is mind boggling...

Never ever would I have imagined this.

It´s a great mourning for what could have been.

I began to feel it and see it in the end of the eighties.

Then the digital revolution lifted the veil and evil came through.

Media became a mirror projecting evil on The People.

Turning reality upsidedown.

6 % - psychopaths of humanity - took all the power and

turned us against each other.

Evil octopus sucking life and happiness out of humanity.

Lies lies and lies.

Never ever would I have imagined such evil.

...and fear, fear, fear.

That's what's keeping them in power.

What has my head spinning is all the lies we were feed thru the 70s 80's... unbelievable... everything i've researched, every topic chock full of lies... what a fucked up world... i just want to be left alone... hear me...

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Yes.

And the digital tech - selecting leaders.

Only solution will be to destroy cyberprison.

Exterminate digital walls.

They will be helpless without tech.

Unfortunately so will we - for a while.

But the chains will be gone.

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You are not alone my friend. Many are awake and awakening.

Ignorance may be bliss but knowledge is power.

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the brainrot known as atheism

I'm not 50+, but I am 40+

When I was little (in the 80s), my babysitter asked us something similar. We were so full of wonder about what the world would be like after 2000. At the time, we couldn't even imagine living that long LOL It seemed so far away.

Now that we're older, it didn't really seem to take nearly as long to get here. I guess time flows forward faster in hindsight.

But as a child, I expected the Jetsons and Star Trek as well. I certainly never thought things would be like this.

Now, can we imagine what the world will be like in 20 more years? I'm almost too scared to find out.

I'm so embarrassed on behalf of mankind. Goodness.

I suspect that in the thousands of patents that were classified by the Military-Industrial Complex over the past decades there are a few that would bring us closer to Star Trek.

Alternative energy sources and storage for example.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there is a parallel society of uber elite who live with that sort of tech privately. That could be why they no longer need the unwashed masses sucking up "their" resources.

Nuclear war would have been less destructive. It still would.

Yeah

Feels like society is regressing

Certainly not in the right direction.

51 here…

When I was young I thought by this time I would have a machine that could make me any meal or drink instantly at the press of a button.

Instead I have the same ole fridge full of BS…

Yeah, blame others. It’s all of us. The fact is, 90+% of people are mindless, greedy, liars, gluttons, and fornicators/porn addicts. Even as a kid I realized most people are just plain selfish. With I grew up and became a born again Christian it all made sense. You have to be really blind and naive to think humanity is heading towards some great place on its own. Sin is real.

Only one end to this present world and only one solution.

I have calculated that, when I get my replicator, I will be able to reduce human interaction by 82%.

Great thread, OP.

Tea, Earl Gray, hot.

A replicator would be just about the coolest invention ever.

Not in our life time though I'm afraid. (melancholy sigh)