What will future generations condemn us for?

Not erradicating the Elite sooner.

Lady Gaga.

Seriously, though, we'll be condemned for allowing the gap between rich and poor to become such a chasm that it caused the destruction of our society. We'll be condemned for not educating our people to think for themselves. We'll be condemned for allowing ideology to take the place of spirituality. We'll be condemned for objectifying women and promoting destructive ideal images. We'll be condemned for allowing relationships to become dead and superficial. The list goes on....

From this atheist's viewpoint, nearly the entire planet is plunging into Dark Ages Two and most seem to be happy moving along as it it was a video game. We have so much potential but we waste opportunity. Historians will look back at us and wonder how we stayed so stupid for so long and took so many with us.

I believe future generations will condemn us (Americans) for allowing our elected officials to run the economy into the ground, wallow in corruption, and run the government as if money grew on trees for the past thirty years.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, when government interferes with the economy they screw things up. One simple example of this is continually increasing the minimum wage. Say the minimum wage is $5.00. At $5.00 100 people are willing to work at Taco Shack and Taco Shack is willing to hire 100 workers. Everyone has a job. Than, the minimum wage is raised to $7.00 and now 125 people are willing to work at Taco Shack but now Taco Shack will only hire 75 people - that is 50 people without jobs, where before everyone who was willing to work had a job. The people who suffer the most from this are minorities, especially single minority mothers. Furthermore Taco Shack now cuts benefits like free meals and only work people for 25 hours a week so they don't have to pay into unemployment (you see this happening now due to the increase in minimum wage from $5.41 to $7.25). And don't even get me started on when the government cedes to unions...

Unions are destroying us.

When the government tries to help it just ends up creating a larger gap between the Lower and Upper class.

Government corruption runs rampant in all levels of government from the bureaucrats to the president on both sides of the aisle (the myth that any one party is vastly more corrupt is just that, a myth). Earmarks in and of themselves are corrupt in nature, Thomas Jefferson warned against them. I would argue that nine times out of ten any kind of favor is corrupt in nature.

The government honestly seems to think that money grows on trees... Our Departments and programs are redundant, often times we will have two to eight or more Departments or programs meant to address the same thing that don't get anything done. Our elected officials constantly push and pass redundant, useless, or inefficient programs just so their name can be attached to it and they can get more votes and wasting millions and billions of dollars. We leave Departments and programs running that no longer have a purpose like the Department of Agriculture wasting billions of dollars. Our Departments are so inefficient... its beyond comprehension. We have multiple Departments and programs meant to address poverty... all told we spend eight hundred billion dollars I believe... according to one investigative reporter who wrote a book called National Suicide claims that we can completely end poverty in the U.S. with just one hundred and sixty-nine billion dollars a year (roughly). I'd go into a lot more detail on the inefficiency of our government, but I don't have the book with me, so I can't double check my facts to get numbers right.

Our elected officials are failing us... Instead of addressing the issues they try and distract us by instigating class warfare, turning things into left vs. right, and divide us at any chance they get... and we let it happen...

They will scratch their heads over the fear so many of us showed towards same sex marriage, immigration, and canabis.

They will criticize us for taking so long in getting to a certain point in civil rights, while regressing on human rights in time of war.

Hopefully we will all be dead and won't know or care what future generations think.

The future world will see all the problems we have and then feel bad, but then they discover how much we spent on our military/wars every year and they realized how dumb and bloodthirsty we must have been and chalk us off as extremely primitive and narrow minded. That is of course if we make it that far, for there to be people in the future.

Once, pretty much everywhere, beating your wife and children was regarded as a father's duty, homosexuality was a hanging offense, and waterboarding was approved -- in fact, invented -- by the Catholic Church. Through the middle of the 19th century, the United States and other nations in the Americas condoned plantation slavery. Many of our grandparents were born in states where women were forbidden to vote. And well into the 20th century, lynch mobs in this country stripped, tortured, hanged and burned human beings at picnics.

The article mentioned behaviors we today might deem reprehensible by today's standards. To castigate previous generations is absurd. The major decisions of the past were made by a smidgen of people. To lay blame at the feet of the powerless is ridiculous just as it is ridiculous as blaming the German and Japanese people for WW II. This type of article sounds like the Flagellants of the Middle Ages whipping themselves in the name of some god.

spending all our money killing each other instead of making the world a better place?

Our short-sighted self-absorption may ensure that there won't be as many future generations as one assumes.

Perhaps they will condemn us for polluting the soil we have to live around, with radioactive material from foolish nuclear bomb manufacturing.

My first thought was: "running up debt".

But then I thought: "Hey, Americans are getting more and more reactionary," Future generations won't be thinking the present generation is mistreating gays and disregarding free speech. Quite the opposite. They'll be thinking this generation was too kind to gays and permitted too much free speech.

They'll say we were wasting our time discussing capital punishment. "Just imagine, some people in 2010 want to abolish it! What nonsense."

Other nonsense the people of 2010 are discussing: Abortion, disarmament, and the right of individuals to organize in unions. The people of 2010 talked about privacy, the meaning is unclear. They wanted to limit the power of the police. What a waste. Fortunately all these things will be a thing of the past in 2050.

For self centered thinking which is the root cause of side effects like climate, pollution, class warfare, lobbies, banking and investment collapses, et.

We're one species... time to start behaving like it.

I think they'll condemn us for having so many opportunites to fix things, yet allowing money to triumph.

We're one species... time to start behaving like it.

This reminds me of the old Tom Lehrer somg "We'll all go together when we go..."

The policies of the George W. Bush administration and the failures of the republican party from 1980 through ?.

Climate change.