Do we fear the future? - part 1 - english version
Our future does not exist yet we can not go to see it or acquire material evidence of a remote future.
The main reason to believe that we will have a future is paradoxically our past, one of the biggest signs of our growing fear of the future is precisely our PAST, concretely, how much it begins to romanticize and adorn with all kinds of virtues, the truth is that It was not always like that there was a time when worshipers and commoners lived obsessed with the wonders of a wonderful future. The past at that time seemed gray, absurd and surpassing.
The fascination that they raised to authors like Jules Verne made many dream about the conquest of unknown horizons in our world and beyond him in turn at that time it seemed that through SCIENCE we could achieve everything there was even enthusiasm to verify scientifically the existence of ghosts, goblins and supernatural forces the FUTURE WAS A DREAM ... What changed?
The future was revealed? .. In certain science not only could conquer borders but also humans and progress could not only make us fuller could also make us insignificant we stop feeling in control of tomorrow everything has its consequences so is the story we can always generate speculations or attempts of predictions but until today the mistakes and impossibilities in predicting our future are more than high, predicting the social future would entail finding a super advanced analysis method possessing practically all the possible information a very monstrous amount of computing power and even the Using a theoretical framework that considers economics, identity, culture, mathematics, systems and even psychology Ashimov considered that the bigger its population was, the more possible it was to predict its actions this by simple and pure statistics and by comparing the study of the behavior of gases with the study of l The masses Of course, he referred to populations of over one hundred billion. At this time, the idea of eliminating uncertainty about the future has been a mere fantasy but we returned and the previous inspiration of the future became increasingly obscure. flying cars but MEGA CORPORATIONS that controlled everything was no longer unlimited progress but the fear of scarcity.
Cyberpunk was born modern dystopia cosmic horror and science fiction was developed to all kinds of questions the fear of the future was already present as a banner of our era the worship of times past resurfaced and from movies to political speeches has been spoken of to retry you to recover make big America again "make America Great Again" said the slogan of a certain leader the identity of this began to take shape in a solipsism in an envelope thought of things every opportunity is accompanied by a new risk fear the future became so great that it began to permeate the life of a generation, the millennials generation: vague and useless term has been characterized by its short-term planning in the face of the uncertainty that presents an unstable future like nitroglycerin that never stays still convulsing by giving birth to invisible enemies, all the food, even sex, the brand of clothes that u do not use everything is filled with conflicts of interest groups fights that paths can take someone before this situation the ANXIETY face a titanic uncertainty.
The indifference to normalize and get used to the impotence of not being able to face everything at once or a determination to embrace only what is possible in their intellectual and emotional capacities, whatever the path one takes, time does not stop is not simple but true is that the situation is not binary or the adoration of the past or the future may not be really useful, to make the present as well can be verified with data not all past time was better we did not live so much we had both and our health was clearly Worse, the future does not augur progress on its own.