Quote from: Vod on February 08, 2018, 11:20:35 PM

Quote from: nullius on February 08, 2018, 11:16:45 PM

Quote from: Vod on February 08, 2018, 11:12:22 PM

I like movies that show how society will eventually break down.

Please fix your grammar. Future tense is incorrect here, as is your usage of the adverb eventually.

The post is exactly how I intended it to be worded.

Society cannot continue even another hundred years the way we are now.

I thought it clear, my implication was past-tense. You are most of a hundred years out of date for the collapse of anything which could be properly called a functioning society. Some might say, more than a hundred years. The problem is that those living in a post-apocalyptic desert of downfallen, zombie-like anthropoids have already forgotten what it means to be humanwhat it meant, once upon a time.

By comparison, Roman society was a zombified rotting corpse for four or five centuries before the civil machine built by long-gone forebears ran out of momentum. I can see how greater technology could have accelerated the ultimate downfall in various ways.

Whats left is to secure yourself, take care of your own, live by honour alone whereas law is meaningless, keep busy with something productive, and try to have some fun.

Quote from: celtic99 on February 08, 2018, 11:36:32 PM

We would all be better off as hunter gatherers.

Hell, no. Primitivist glorification of savagery is fit only for savages. It would be better for so-called humanity to go extincta not unlikely end, at this rate.

Quote from: MJK_Anfaenger on February 08, 2018, 11:38:14 PM

Non-native speaker stopping by. What's wrong with his wording? Future tense is used for making predictions, right? Could you elaborate?

It was a sociopolitical statement wrapped with dry humour in the guise of a grammar flame. There was nothing wrong with Vods grammar, insofar as it properly expressed what he meant to say. I was subtly suggesting that the event he described in future tense is an eventuality which already occurred, past perfect.

Quote from: Vod on February 08, 2018, 11:53:07 PM

My wording was correct because I was making a prediction. I believe nullius has a more optimistic view of the future than I do.

To the contrary! You have it backwards. I wish I had just pushed through the post which comprises the first part above. I kept having to pause and go add replies to additional posts. This happens to me all too often.

Optimism is cowardice. Spengler (writing most of a hundred years ago)

Now, this discussion is far off-topic. If you want to take it up in Politics & Society, then... no, actually, I dont. I think I should leave it at that, and go do something productive and/or have fun.