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A bit of brainstorming; What will be the status of the relationship between men and women in the West? Do you see the "gender wars" losing steams, or becoming a definitive battleground as mandated by Conflict Theory?
The tension is caused exclusively by media/capital/US propaganda, or it is an inevitable consequence of women entering public life and becoming another side of another friend/enemy dichotomy?
In terms of Gender War, it's hard to predict. The Progressive zeitgeist seems to be losing a bit of steam, but it has seemed like that before and it always plows forward relentlessly.
Frankly without a major disruption to the global tech economy, a major war or political backlash or something, I see us sliding pretty directly into Automated Gay Space Luxury Communism. Technology will get more and more apt at changing our bodies until we can change sex at will. No idea how we will handle families and reproduction, we may just make humans immortal and have reproduction be something we do for fun, or as we need to handle population levels.
The tension is caused due to the historical juggernaut of European Christianity discovering the unjust cries of the victim, and over the millenia slowly trying more and more to prevent harm and abuse in any and all ways. This historically unfolding process has been going on for far longer than most here think.
Ultimately we're going to have to learn to have a stable society without oppressing people, either that or have a nuclear war that sends us back to pre-Christianity, and hope that people don't come up with a similar philosophy. Personally I'd vastly prefer the former option, but sadly it seems many here see the way women act nowadays and just want to burn it all to the ground. I'm sure there are other options, but the binary is clear to me.
I'm skeptical. I'm reminded of how everyone assumed not only that true AI would be simpler than it is, but they assumed that all sorts of things like walking and perception and artificial eyes would be simpler than it is. People assumed they were simple because they were easy to imagine, but computer technology doesn't become easy based on being easy to imagine--that's how magic spells work, not science.
Depends on the time frame. I'm talking in the next 200-500 years, not trying to give any serious prediction on the near term.
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