Will a century ever be as epic as the 20th? I feel like the 21st

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZiVWXjsaJg

Thread anthem.

>>2416435
the alt right and leftypol have no influence outside the internet

you need to leave your mother's basement and take a walk in the real world for a few days

>>2416452

Who gives a flying fuck about the mass of humanity? The mass of humanity is never ever a signal of the times to come. You need to look at what's happening on the fringes.

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>>2416460
This, actually.

>>2416435
>implying alt right and lefty pol actually matter

Don't worry guys, we memed Trump into existence all by ourselves!

>>2416452
/leftypol/ has no influence outside of /leftypol/.

If the modern """"""""""left"""""""""" was even 10% leftypol it'd be a million times better. Instead its just idpol cancer. Just like the altright.

>>2416435
/leftypol/ are never relevant in the first place, hell Tumblr is more influential

Altright is the only one thats relevant

>>2416435
20th century is the most boring moment in history.
>But muh muh World Wars!

>>2416849
>alt right
>relevant

Only a stormfag can trick themselves into thinking it's justifiable to meme IRL.

>>2416435
No, liberal capitalist democracy has triumphed.

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>>2416863
>n-no what about the proletariat uprising, w-what about the race war?

>>2416861
bannon is altright anon

>>2416921
Bannon predates the alt-right movement substantially. The alt-right is substantially younger than him both ideologically and in actual, physical age. Bannon is just plain-old right wing.

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>>2416435
It'll probably be dominated by pseudoreligions in the form of fandoms.
After the traditional systems of belonging collapse, people go search for an identity somewhere else.
Fandoms are easily manageable by politicians and profitable for corporations.

Now before you call bullshit, please do visit sites like Tumblr and Deviantart.
The amount of time that people put into creating fanart/fanfiction/porn for some tv show has probably eclipsed all the time spent on all of europe's art up until the 20th century already.
It's not exactly high quality, but the quantity alone is astonishing.

It's quite interesting from an anthropological perspective. Nothing like that has ever happened before. What we're witnessing is a cultural explosion that has already resulted in the formation of dozens of subcultures within less than a decade.

Now that VR/AR is becoming abundant, people are free to replace reality with whatever suits them and gives them a sense of belonging.

>>2416858
18th century
>muh Enlightenment
>muh Peter the Great
>muh Frederick the Great
>muh pirates
>muh 7 years war
>muh independence from Britain
>muh Mozart and Beethoven
>muh Bastille
>muh guillotine
19th century
>muh Nelson
>muh Napoleon
>muh Bolivar
>muh industry
>muh Alamo
>muh romanticism
>muh slavery and secession
>muh Indians
>muh France vs Prussia
>muh Marx
>muh Victoria
20th century
>muh Titanic
>muh Great War
>muh Bolsheviks
>muh Jazz and silent movies
>muh Depression and Dust Bowl
>muh Hitler
>muh WWII
>muh mushroom clouds
>muh Cold War
>muh Korea
>muh Marilyn Monroe
>muh Elvis Presley and Rock and Roll
>muh Great Leap Forward
>muh missiles in Cuba
>muh Vietnam
>muh dropping acid
>muh neoloberalism and Reagan
>muh Berlin Wall
>muh Balkan states and Rwanda
20th century was at least just as interesting as the prior 2 centuries.

>>2416932
>Bannon predates the alt-right movement substantially.

And Hitler predated the Nazi movement. What's your fucking point? Almost every member of the alt-right "predates" the alt-right.
Bannon is basically the alt-right's poster boy.

>>2416435
The 21st century has already seen the biggest terrorist attack ever, the longest war since the Renaissance era, and the birth of privately owned space ships.

Things are off to a great start.

The 21st century will be dominated by catastrophic climate change, and likely many resource wars resulting from it.

Frankly I have doubts that we'll survive it.

>>2416937
>unironically using DeviantArt as a source
>not factoring in the sheer growth of the human population over the 20th century when comparing to what Europeans in the 18th century spent their time doing

A billion monkeys typing shit is still a billion monkeys typing shit no matter how many "man hours" it is, and one of the reasons why judging productivity by man hours is worthless.

>>2416970
>catastrophic climate change
Good Lord I'll be glad when this ignorant, unnecessarily politicized alarmist nonsense ends.

>>2416981
>when this ignorant, unnecessarily politicized alarmist nonsense ends.

You're in for a long wait, family man.

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>>2416981
not
an
argument

hope you enjoy the next refugee crisis :^^^^^^^^^^^)

>>2416969
Also the whole ISIS mess with a doomsday cult spearheading the Muslim World's version of the 30 Years War.

"alarmist nonsense"?

Have you been living under a rock? The past three years have all been the hottest in recorded history, arctic ice extent is at an all time low, and temperatures are rising rapidly.

Over 95% of climate scientists agree that manmade climate change is real and a threat, but I'm sure you know better.

The early 20th century will wind up as a fantasy epic, like the Trojan war

It had everything

And it culminated in the defeat of an evil empire run by a dark lord

>>2416994
"alarmist nonsense"?

Have you been living under a rock? The past three years have all been the hottest in recorded history, arctic ice extent is at an all time low, and temperatures are rising rapidly.

Over 95% of climate scientists agree that manmade climate change is real and a threat, but I'm sure you know better.

>>2416981
"alarmist nonsense"?

Have you been living under a rock? The past three years have all been the hottest in recorded history, arctic ice extent is at an all time low, and temperatures are rising rapidly.

Over 95% of climate scientists agree that manmade climate change is real and a threat, but I'm sure you know better.

>>2417002
>>2417016
>>2417018
You only need post it once, and I'm loving the fact that spring starts in February now. Perfect T-shirt weather. BTW, this has happened many times before in history, and every time it has, it has brought prosperity. It's not man made either, pollution isn't nearly what it was in the 70s. Enjoy the Sun.

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>>2417029

>pollution got better which means warming trends have no effect now right?

>>2417001
>muh shia-sunni conflict like the thirty years war :DDDDDD

When does this meme die?

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>>2417046
>warming trends had anything to do with pollution to begin with

>>2417029
I don't really use this website, I accidentally replied to the wrong person.

Even you are basically admitting that the current weather patterns we're experiencing aren't normal. Temperatures will continue to rise and extreme weather will increase in frequency.

Temperatures have risen before, but never this rapidly, or due to human activity.

>>2416976
Population in the western world didn't grow fast enough to explain the boom in the last 20 years.
The internet has radically changed the way humans interact with each other and how they spend their time.
Escapism has become far more accessible than ever before and with the introduction of virtual reality technology, people increasingly choose to ignore reality in favor of a constructed illusion that satisfies their basic desires.

Combine this with the general nihilism of the current times and you'll be lucky if people even leave their house in 30 years.

>>2417070
>Even you are basically admitting that the current weather patterns we're experiencing aren't normal.
It's not normal in the context of people who are accustomed to the weather of the 20th Century.
>Temperatures will continue to rise and extreme weather will increase in frequency.
What are you, a prophet or something? Share your gift of foresight with the rest of us.
>Temperatures have risen before, but never this rapidly
Are you sure? I assume you have proof.
>or due to human activity.
The Reykjavik Volcano released more greenhouse gas than man is estimated to have released in all of history. Krakatoa too.

The third episode of the western saga is coming out. This time the globalized world fights america, who came into power in the first two episodes as the good guy. What an end to a trilogy

>Implying the 20th century was better than the 19th

>>2417071
The medium of the internet has enabled the existence of purely virtual communities, often consisting of individuals who are both geographically and socially seperated and merely united under a common subculture.
Those subcultures are fairly fringe at the moment, but with the increasing alienation of western society they will likely become an alternative to participation in society, as they more closely resemble tribal strictures and can (under the guise of roleplay) include religious elements which are becoming more and more unacceptable to display in real society.

>>2417098
>the increasing alienation of western society
Any source on this? I hear people talk about it all the time but I have yet to see any literature

The Meme Wars of the Early Internet Age will be grander and more studied than all of the rest of History combined

>>2417086
Have you ever looked at the climate data and projections put out by scientists? It's obvious that global temperatures are warming, and they show no signs of stopping. If anything, it's speeding up.

The climate naturally warms or cools over a period of thousands of years, not a century.

Once the arctic/antarctic ice melts, massive 'bubbles' of methane trapped under permafrost and the oceans are likely to burst, which will very likely lead to a runaway greenhouse effect.

I don't understand how you guys can honestly believe that you know better than thousands of scientists with doctorates/PHD's who have spent their lives studying this subject and collecting data on it.

>>2417120
Nice appeal to authority faggot

>>2417098
http://theinfosphere.org/images/5/56/TrekChurch.jpg

>>2417126
I'm just pointing out that these people are vastly more knowledgeable and educated on the subject than you or I.

Isaac Asimov put it quite nicely -

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b8/4e/e3/b84ee30c602461df58ad3e1bfe525c64.jpg

>>2417120
>The climate naturally warms or cools over a period of thousands of years, not a century.
That's not even true, climate change can and has occurred over a period of centuries and even decades.

Also, the Reykjavik volcanic eruption released more greenhouses than humanity has released in its entire history. A point you conveniently neglected to refute.

>>2417126
>person spends their entire life studying a subject
>they come to an opinion
>point this out
>well my opinion is valid too

It isn't.

>>2417158
Just because you have a degree and glasses on your pretentious face doesn't actually have any effect on the substance of your argument

>>2417145
>the climate change authoritarian of all people posts about anti-intellectualism

>>2417154
>Reykjavik volcanic eruption
That's been debunked.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/apr/21/iceland-volcano-climate-sceptics

>>2417165
It does.

It's the same reason a doctor can prescribe drugs and you can't.

Sorry, but you have to work to get smart.

If you haven't done the work, your opinion isn't worth anything.

>>2417175
>doctors never make mistakes
When a doctor tells me liberal prescription of Oxycontin doesn't have public health ramifications he's fucking wrong, end of story.

>>2417166
By your logic, I'd be an "authoritarian" if I said that a physicist knows more about the subject than an average Joe does.

Whatever, buddy.

>>2417190
if a scientist says the earth is flat and a coal miner says it's round, is the scientist just right because lol he has a degree

>>2417175
Yes, it fucking does. A person who has went to school and spent years receiving an education studying a subject knows more about it than an average schmuck off the street.

>>2417186
>doctors never make mistakes

This is another reason why you aren't smart enough to make decisions.

You aren't good enough at critical thinking to recognize a strawman argument and stop making them.

The doctor is going to make less mistakes than you, which is why you aren't allowed to remove brain tumors and a neurosurgeon is.

The beautiful thing is that you are actually constitutionally incapable of exercising power, because people smarter than you will continue to control you no matter what choices you make.

Hence why you're spewing talking points drawn up by fossil fuel companies and thinking you're fighting the power. Your opinions were bought and paid for a while ago.

>>2417200
That's the most stupid fucking 'argument' I've heard in a long time. You sound like an ignorant fool.

>>2417205
I'm not actually a climate change denier, you were just making a shitty argument

>>2417218
Sorry, but in a specialized society, the opinions of professionals matter more than the opinions of amateurs.

See, it's always fine to get a second opinion from a second professional, but there's a reason you aren't allowed to order a CT scan on your own authority.

You can call it whatever you like, but it's a basic fact of life.

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>>2417174
>theguardian
>talking about something they know nothing of
>getting all their information from scientists who have been proven to be pushing an agenda instead of searching for truth
>>2417190
In this case, neither side knows what the hell is happening. Climate change scientists don't conduct actual science and are an affront to the scientific method itself. Either way, the climate change apocalypticism is complete garbage, 100 years from now people will use the climate change alarmists as evidence why science should never become politicized.

>>2417236
>neither side knows what the hell is happening

Look, it's an assertion unsupported by evidence.

>>2417237
and your assertion is supported by faulty evidence at best

>>2416858
>muh'ing everything to marginalize them
nice memeing senpai

>>2417256
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/mains1.html

Sorry, but I trust the scientists more than the petroleum companies.

>>2416452
Disagree. Millenials and Gen Z are pretty polarized. Lots of socialists and fascists, at least when compared to previous generations

>>2417236
I don't suppose you have any proof of YOUR claims, that the scientists are somehow pushing an "agenda"?

You're spewing bullshit used by fossil fuel industries and right wing talking heads to discredit those who threaten their interests.

>>2417266
Agreed. I can't fucking understand why anyone takes the word of energy companies and slimy politicians over that of scientists. It's astounding.

>>2417002
>>2417016
>>2417018
Based Redditor

>>2417352
As I said, I'm new to using this site. I accidentally sent the reply to the wrong people at first.

Trying to distract from the current conversation?

>>2417367
>I'm new to using this site
Lurk for a year before posting, newfaggot.

>>2416849
Getting punched in the face and chased out of a lolbertarian convention doesn't make you revelant

>>2417371
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/417/069/5ba.jpg

>>2417367
Okay, here's a tip.

If you put anything in the name field, you will eventually contract HIV and die.

The 20th century displayed the dangers of ideology. It really needs to die.

>>2417418
Yeah, we should just get back to the simple stuff like nurturing your family.

>>2417424
Yes!

>>2417428
What's a good family?

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>>2417367
>coming from Leddit

34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn

“‘a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
36 a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’[c]
37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

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>>2417428
The purest of pure ideology

>>2416932
>>2416921
Bannon is Neo-reactionary traditionalist tier anons

>>2416937
Really makes you think. Good thing I'm a fandom atheist.

>>2417338
>>2417329
Climate change (tm) is unfalsifiable as a concept thus carries little validity desu. Perhaps if you were a little older you would realize that this alarmist bunkum has been going on for decades and actually means very little much in the same fashion that fears of overpopulation has in part driven our birthrates off of a cliff. Before the 1970s the consensus was that Earth was entering a period of global cooling and that trend would continue onward. The issue is that the Climate system we live under is much too unpredictable to make any accurate predictions about long term trends, for example if you look at the hydrosphere water can both act as an accelerant for global warming and cooling. If you real have issue with anthropogenic climate change you should really get behind nuclear power, especially the further development of thorium nuclear power, that stuff is practically utopian in comparison to the rest of our options at this point.

If you look into the alleged 95% consensus on climate change and global warming you'd realize that the sociologist who did the study used extremely poor methodology, as to be expected from someone from that field.

Yes, the 28th century when the hyper-war with the intergalactic toad people peaks.

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>>2417396

yeah but we can make you the laughing stock of this board because you are a fucking NAMEFAG from fucking plebbit and have to go back. or lurk more. alternatively, kill yourself, and please take as many family members with you as possible.

>>2416452
Hitler started as pub entertainer.