philosophical_recovery said:I really want to see what future historians will write about this time period.
"During the decade of the 2010 years, a strange mental virus developed which caused mass confusion over sexuality. Scientists are working on a theory that this was a self correcting DNA virus to eliminate unfit individuals from the gene pool. Others believe that this behavior can be tied simply to population density similar to research developed during the mid 20th century on rodents.
It is puzzling how, even when presented with experimental evidence, societies doubled down and promoted the symptoms of a dying society as preferential behavior.
Research is still bring performed, but traversing the terabytes of data requires a human touch that our AI cannot recreate, and scientists involved in this project have had to be treated for massive depression."
Presuming that a world which embraces and encourages extreme mental illness, narcissism and self-mutilation will one day give way to rational thinking scientists. Optimistic indeed.