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You want serious?
A mega-metropolis is a nightmare vision of the future because it is the end of humanity.
We rely on the natural world for our survival in so many ways that if we destroy the natural world to promote our own species, then we ultimately ensure our own destruction as well.
The food we eat, the water we drink, the very air we breathe is all reliant on natural systems to be recycled to a stage where we can re-use them. Build a metropolis and you destroy those systems. You probably think that scientists could come up with clever ways to replace those systems, but in reality it would be a system that would eventually fails. That is because it is man-made. Every thing that is man-made will fail eventually and the more complex the system, the higher the probability of failure.
So you think my Soylent Green joke is just a joke? In many ways it is a viable option for an over-developed world because in the end, humans are protein (food) like any other animal we eat. So who gets eaten? Well I guess those that are of no use to the society would be the logical choice, so that would include the elderly, the disabled, the mentally ill and the failures in life. Then you might get a certain prejudice in a population that becomes the common thinking, so that a certain type of person, perhaps the ugly or the short people for instance, also become candidates for re-processing. Or perhaps an IQ test could be done and anyone who fell below the average could be a candidate.
You can't make food from nothing. It has to come from somewhere.
But what a mind-numbing, soul destroying world it would be if we were all forced to live in a cage of our own creation. The modern day rat-race would pale in comparison as even the most mindless office drone can escape at the end of the day and if they choose, seek to revive in a place where nature can heal their soul. Without that ability to get away, or even the possibility to get away from time to time, our humanity would be lost and in a very short time we would see all sorts of depravity and abuse become common-place.
This would probably lead to reactionary law enforcement, leading to stiffer penalties for the growing crime rate. I guess that would perhaps offer up a new group of candidates for re-processing. The ordinary person would feel great fear that their own life may be at risk if they deviate from the "norm" in any way, so they would do their boring job, go home to their boring family, watch their boring television shows and go to bed and dream of a life that they can never have.
We are already too far down the path to this bleak future in my opinion.
Last edited by Rodri; 04-08-2010 at 11:29 PM.
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