The world of the future

Should it not come as obvious that, in the day of the Internet and the cell phone, a house or even an apartment with several rooms or more, is simply no longer necessary for many people?

It might sound bewildering to some of you assholes out there, because I know you all can't wait to buy as much excess bullshit as you can, but when I look out to the future, what I see is a world in which people are 1. Living majority Single and 2. More than happy to share things like, for ex., bathrooms, kitchens, and storage areas (aka attics and basements).

The basic point is that, as a single person, I just don't really understand why the only choice i have for  an apartment, is the choice that must come with a kitchen and my own bathroom. I don't need this. In fact, I don't even really think I need a living room. All i really need, to be frank, is a place to sleep, and a place to set up a mini desk right near my bed, so I can type. Basically, in my reality, this is all i've ever had in the first place---and yet, society seems to insist that  i need my own kitchen, my own bathroom, my own living room, etc. Society seems to find the idea of grown adults sharing all of this ---as is commonly done in a dorm style situation -- intolerable.

Why? I'll tell you why: Because society is very stupid, and it is making a lot of random assumptions about me, and about others. Unfortnately, these assumptions are becoming a bit outdated -- thanks to the internet, as i'll explain -- and they're also getting annoyingly costly for that same reason.

Let me cut straight to the chase: In the world that existed before the Internet, and especially before the cell phone w/ internet access, people liked to have big living spaces, not necessarily because they were assholes who wanted to show off (this always played a role) but really more because, believe it or not, there wasn't much to do in the world before the internet, and so your own physical space -- where you could create your own fun---was highly valued. For example, before the Net, its probably the case that my hobbies might mirror my 60 year old uncles hobbies, which include things like woodworking, playing a big set of real drums, and working on cars, too. All of these hobbies took up a lot of space, as you can imagine, and as a result of this, my uncle has a literally enormous piece of property upon which he has passed his life. The same, of course, also  goes for the women: Many of them, in the past, really liked cooking, and maybe they really wanted children too--of course--so a big house with their own personal kitchen, a pool for the kiddies to swim in, and a yard for them to run in, seemed completly necessary. They had dreams of hosting extravagant holidays and inviting all their cousins who each had a family of 5-6 brats. They wanted to entertain their many friends from high school or college, all of whom were married and still in town, seemingly never to leave or travel anywhere, and also probably bored out of their skulls, desperate to talk to anyone around,  since the Internet didn't exist.

 But guess what? Its 2018 now and I don't really know a single fellow who likes building wooden decks like my uncle did, and I don't really know anyone who plays real big drum sets anymore either, for that matter. Does it all sound nice? Sure. But it also sounds like something from a past age to a lot of people...like something not totally necessary. Honestly, it almost sounds like riding a horse: It'd be fun, but its not on my list of "must haves". I have YouTube and a vast array of video games now. I don't want to build a wooden deck. As for the drums, I will admit i prefer the real ones, but the truth is that most people of my generation don't. Most songs made now use fake drums programmed inside a little laptop.

Hence, you see, the truth today, whether you like it or not, is that many  individual hobbies have been pushed inside the computer or the cell phone screen, which is something that, as I wrote before, I can do all from the comfort of one single tiny bedroom . For the most part, many people from the new generation can and do pass the vast majority of their alone time just on a cell phone.  In fact, you might not have realized this curious fact, but even many of the things I'm doing on my little pocket cell phone here, are things that would have taken up a great deal of physical space, in the world before the internet. For example, all of the records I'm listening to, all of the movies I've watched, all of the games I've played, and certainly all of the articles and newspapers and books I've read...all of this would have literally taken up rooms and rooms of space, in the 20th century. You would have come to visit me and you would have seen hundreds of books stacked up on some shelf somewhere. Probably I would have had a wife who would have catalogued and dusted it constantly, and made a little display out of it. Now of course,  it takes up no space at all . I don't need the wife to dust it or make a display of it, and I don't need the bookshelf.  Both the wife and the bookshelf maker are out of business.

Now, thanks to the glory of tech, I can travel from room to room with only a suitcase full of clothes and a cell phone in my pocket, and I have an entire library of essentially unlimited books with me, at all times.  (I have at least 900 novels on my cell phone and an entire library of new books available at OpenLibrary.org).  I can also, if i want, even type my own books on the cell phone. As a result, what need do I really have, for storage space, like i might have wanted in the 20th century? Sure, it might be nice to have, but the truth is that I don't really need it, and since I don't like spending money, why bother getting it? Why bother at all?

When I envision the future, I generally envision a world where the vast majority of people will be single, unmarried, and childless. I also envision a world where most of these people are traveling very frequently, since they'll have friends all over the globe, and thus passing most of their time outside of what will be their one room residence. I see communal kitchens and communal bathrooms, and I don't think that they'll be disgusting or dirty, like many assholes from our own time would blatantly assume they would be. I also, when i think of the future, see cities that are going to be much more safe to live within, and thus far more enjoyable to wander around for long stretches of time, when one wants to leave their one room apartment. You'll be able to wander all over the place and not have to worry like you would now.

In our own time, many people like to stay home because the cities and towns are all in absolute ruins, and you're likely to get robbed. And of course, if you're not in the city where you'll be robbed, you're probably off in some dead boring McMansion suburb, where there's no where to walk. This, you understand, won't at all  be the case in the future. When I look out to the coming decades, I see more people on foot than ever before, I see people gathering together to eat dinner happily  in public parks, I see people passing Friday nights playing video games and watching "movies" together, in public spaces. I also see tons and tons of wide spaces where people will be able to sit quietly alone, with no fear or harassment from cops or criminals. Imagine, for instance, a large shopping mall-esque  area, in some cold climate state like Minnesota. But now imagine that its just a big park that the citizens of the city have built for one another, and you're free to go there and, since its so gigantic, you can always find your own little corner to sit in. You pass your time there, you read books there, you can  roll around w/ your dog there. You can decorate too, perhaps. Who knows? The whole concept of loitering laws, for example, is going to change dramatically, in my opinion. Aftre all, loitering laws wre only invented because, in the past, all of the people out wandering are people we know don't have big homes and probably want to rob us. This won't be the case any longer. The loiterers of the future won't be starving. They'll just be folks who live in one room and who spend all of their money on things besides gigantic living rooms and private kitchens that they don't need. They'll be people who are carrying all of their hobbies inside a little device in their pocket.

Think of this:  Today, a kid sits inside, locked behind a door, to play the latest video game. He is forced to do this because the computer screen he needs must be plugged in and he cannot move it easily, since it is heavy. In the future, he'll be able to set this game up right on the beach, and play all night. It will be as easy to transport as a boombox became in the late 80s and 90s. Thus, you understand, the obsession with ones own "private locked space", is going to evaporate even more than it already has.  What the capitalists who adore private land don't understand is that the good folks of the human race have a natural tendency to keep wandering back out to the streets and the public areas. No one really likes being on private pieces of property, in a very real sense. We want our own private area to sleep, yes, free of noise, but beyond that, it starts to get boring and fast. People in the McMansion suburbs are actually some of the most depressed people currently in our country. They are on countless sedative drugs. Why sedatives? Because they keep wanting to go out a'walking somewhere, but then they remember there's no where to walk. In the future, as i say, there will be! Its going to be safe and its going to be easy.

One major reason the cities of the future will probably be so much safer than our own in 2018, is due directly to the fact that most citizens of the future will be single and childless, as stated. For the radical truth about our own age is that most of the really angry, hungry criminals are all coming from people who had neither the adequate space nor money to raise them, when they were still little baby boys and gals. Thus, its very easy to imagine crime rates falling extremely low in a world where not every single person, whether they are unemployed, working at Sunoco, or a wealthy lawyer, is gunning for the exact same family of 2-3 kids . Also, in regards to the communal kitchens and bathrooms: In our own time, we would find this disgusting because we know that diseases are often spreading like wildfire, largely due to lack of public healthcare and Vice President Pence believing that God will prevent AIDs if you say the magic prayers.

In the future all of this hogwash will largely be gone. Public health will be phenomenally improved. Outbreaks of disease, thanks to a public health system, will be quickly contained, ,uch like they are  even in Europe right now, where the AIDs rate is much lower than our own, since everyone can go to the hospital. Notice how in Europe things like the hostel are already far more popular than here in the States, where travelers still usually depend on the private hotel room, complete w/ kitche, living room, bathroom etc. Communal hostels are not more popular in Europe by mere chance: It's all directly related to the fact that Europeans are cleaner and not anywhere near as likely to spread disease to one another as Americans are. They're also not nearly as likely to rob one another since they have an actual welfare system. Syphilis, for example, is now basically considered a disease of the 19th century in Europe. In Mississippi and Alabama, two Republican strongholds obsessed with private land, syphilis rates are instead growing. "Ain't no hospitals round here kid..not any we can legally access anyways.."

Now, if you  find it hard to imagine crime rates and stuff like that dropping in the future, and you are of the mind that "crime will always plague dis world!", please consider the fact that, before electritiy was invented, cop forces didn't even exist like they did today, and if you went roaming the streets at night in the year 1378, there was a very good chance someone would literally shear your head off right in the street with a longsword, and then leave your body to rot in the muddy street all night, until morning, and no one would even really think that much of it. Seeing dead bodies and witnessing murders was, in fact, a very common occurrence for people of this world, before electricity came around. In fact, you were probably pretty likely to be a murderer yourself back then, at least a time or two. These days you might notice that murder, whilst still a popular pastime in some regard, isn't nearly as rampant as it once was. I am using this dramatic example in order to highlight that, despite what the Republicans tell us, crime rates generally drop, instead of rise. The narrative that Fox news sells us about how the world is only getting more dangerous is, frankly, a crock of smelly shit. The world is not getting more dangerous as time goes by. It is getting safer. Significantly safer.

The vast majority of people, even those who live in our worst ghettos here in the States, have actually not seen anyone brutally murdered. In fact, even the manner in which we kill people, all seems that much safer nowadays, versus our deep dark traditional past. A gunshot through the heart is nothing like someone bringing a two handed battle ax down upon your head in the 1200s. Which, you know, was a thing that happened fairly often, in that weird world before electricity. Sean Hannity, who tells me on Fox news every night how much he yearns to live in the  masculine world of the "good oldays", should probably go back to that version of masculinity. I should like to see his fat faggot ass running around in circles in some dark medieval village. When he robs the local gang of starving peasnats, they cut his tongue out of his head and feed it to his fat bitch wife. "Whose the masculine man now, faggot?" No one would even be punished for this. They'd just wander off to another village, and thats the end of it. Sean Hannity would not have his pretty little suit and sparkling princess shoes from Macy's to wear back then, with his perfectly coiffed hair,  like he does every night on Fox news. One wonders: Do the sparkling dress shoes mean you're a faggot who likes it up your ass, Sean Hannity? After all, in the year 1395 of our conservative tradition,  men used to daily wear boots that were often caked in mud and shit and blood. Maybe even tiny pieces of human flesh , too, that we hacked off some mother fucker trying to rob us, was on the boot.  Sean Hannity, why don't you wear those on TV every night? Why do you not wear a coat made of bear fur, from a bear you killed with your own hands last night? Aren't you a real man you fat faggot? Why aren't you carrying a battle ax Sean? Aren't you a conservative?  Or are you just a shit pretender? Hmm..

I get sidetracked, however. Back to the main point, which was that crime rates, you see, have been falling significantly for centuries now, evry time a new invention comes out. Society as a whole has only grown more and more secure since we started inventing tech. London in the 1800s was an unbelievably frightening place to live in, same as the Wild West of Texas and so on. For instance,to again drive home the point about just how much safer things really are nowdays, versus the past, it might be good to discuss a place like 1800s London a little further.

 See, London at this time wasn't medieval, so no one was carrying battle axes anymore (cane swords would have been popular in this era) but it was still extremely common to see gangs of homeless children wandering around and begging. In fact, one of our most famous and beloved childrens books, involves a story inspired by the many homeless children, specifically unwanted boys, who once wandered the streets of London. You know it as Peter Pan.   Peter  Pan and his famous gang of "Lost Boys" were based on children who had come of age in London orphanages and then escaped, probably at young ages, to roam the city streets, and gloriously annoy the upper class. A part of Peter Pans popularity  at the time the story was written was all about how Wendy -- a middle class girl living comfortably with a family -- probably found the life of the street boys "intriguing". This is all an important topic to discuss, i think, especially with Republicans who seem to have literally no awareness of how grim the conservative past really was. The main point to drive home with this topic of homeless children wandering all the cities in the past is that....though the upper class found these children frightening back then, they didn't quite find them revolting. As in, most people just figured homeless children who escaped orphanages were something that humanity could never possibly find a solution for. Just like Republicans now are convinced that we cannot possibly dream of fixing the homeless adult population, or the welfare state, etcetc.....

Of course,  gangs of homeless children still roam the streets of third world cities like those in South America, and many of my good friends in Mexico and Colombia report such things to me on the regular. But in the developed world, where we have invented tech and security cameras and where we have some extra money, we no longer see them. This is because society has gotten safer instead of more dangerous, like that fat faggot Sean Hannity insists it has. Unwanted kids are whisked away somewher  better than the cold streets and not left around to beg, because it used to feel like shit to see them and it ruined the atmosphere of the city, not to mention made it very dangerous. Enormous gangs of homeless children are known to be extremely dangerous. Sort of like the older teenagers we now see in drug dealing streets gang now, i suppose, though the vast majority of those teens have places to lay their head at night. Its just that during the day they deal drugs that Republicans insist we cannot legalize, and well.... blah blah....

Whats it all have to do w/ my initial point of course, about the single room residence with the community bathrooms and the community kitchens? Well as i say ... it all ties in together because the only reason we want this extreme level of privacy we are now living with, is because we are terrified of our fellow citizens. Nothing more.  Take out the trash of society, clean it all up a bit more, as we have been doing for centuries, and the next thing you know, you won't need to feel "forced" to live in a big house or a big apartment full of expensive stuff you don't really need. You'll find yourself with way cooler stuff instead. Don't you think it sounds cooler?

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