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Why is a bright future assumed?

Sun eventually goes supernova.
- It doesn't. It's not massive enough. It turns into a red giant, then collapses into a white dwarf and eventually fusion basically stops.
Thermonuclear reactions are very bright

What's weird to me is, the dark ages weren't dark for the Middle East, they kept on learning and expanding. What's in a name and all that.

Historians of the medieval era hate the term "dark ages", even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.
- I once heard in some history tv show that it's called "dark ages" not because of the bad living conditions, but because we know so few things about it, compared to other history periods.
- Absolutely. It's sucked a lot longer than that.
Only a little unfortunate they skipped the enlightenment, akin to what Europe had.
- They didn't skip it, the enlightenment was a continuation of what they came up with. I'm pretty sure they didn't deny the earth is round and the sun is the center of our galaxy.
Sorry what learning and expanding are you talking about? Can you please be specific about which years and give a source?
- pretty much everything between ~600 and 1900 and pretty much everywhere from Morrocco to Turkey to Iran.
  
  Just read up on Moors, Ottomans, Iranians, Mail Empire, Islamic culture, science and arts...
  
  A lot of it in Palestine got destroyed by the savage European crusaders though.

Humanity will not exist long enough to reach said bright future

I'm worried the bright future will start right as the last humans die....
- That's why it's called the bright future.. Right?

Yeah, you're mostly missing the ages prior to middle. Like stone, which was pretty huge.

Ok, added some bars to the left
- Ah, much better. lol

there's only one future for humanity that's bright posadist-nuke

It's posadism time
- Climate change will also kill capitalism and can signal aliens far away.

Stop using proprietary software, embrace FOSS. Krita, GIMP, Inkscape.

You want me to say "Feel free to GIMP your variants"? =\

P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)
- The word you are looking for is "make" or "edit".
  
  Kids these days... Have to rename everything! /s
  
  Did you know that "to google something" is the proprietary version of "to search something"? See!!! Proprietary software has integrated into conversational phrases! *It's time to stop!*
  
  I envy you because I don't know how to use Inkscape properly (it looks very complicated). I don't really need/use it, so yeah.
keep using 'photoshop' as a generic term and verb until it becomes 'generic enough' for adobe to lose its trademark. same with 'google' ftm.
- Nooo!!! You are only helping them! /s
  
  Instead use edit/make/search.
  
  *Look how they massacred my ~~boy~~ English!*
Richard, is that you?
Shhhhh it’s okay to let people enjoy things
- Enough is enough. It's time to make this year the year of Linux. /s
  
  I mean, I mostly enjoy my FOSS (there are some issues). At least I don't have to pay thousands of dollars or pirate it (and hiding it) only to find out that it's Linux incompatible.

yep, also a viable variant

Another alternative is that we’re already living in the “Golden Age” of Mankind, which is kind of scary to think about.

We may look back at these days - you know, where not all diseases kill you, and in fact were super easily handled, barely an inconvenience!:-P - and wish to have such things as "antibiotics" again, before bacteria all became immune to them.

Or maybe the world will rally together, and start funding research into alternatives quickly enough for it to matter? Just like climate change too...

It's a good thing that people aren't anti-science now, bc that surely would be a problem if we want to reach that bright shiny happy future we keep hoping for. :-|
- Our existing antibiotics would be perfectly fine, if they were used responsibly instead of mass breeding resistant bacteria to mass breed animals under terrible conditions because capitalism.
  
  In the same wake climate change would be much easier to deal with if the economic system wasnt designed around infinite growth of production and consumption.
- It is very naive to think that the collective endgoal of humanity is to have super health when right now the only goal is which super power will dominate over the others, killing everyone who stands on their way

Keeping in mind that a single axis for progress is reductive: also, don't forget that there have been and will be backslides. For example, European colonialism set back a lot of progressive / alternative cultures, genociding them or converting them to something that better-served the interests of empire (e.g., race rules).

in reality the graph alternates black and white and only holds true for one certain location/group at a time

I'll believe it when we dismantle the nukes, class society, and fossil fuel industry. A better world is possible but only if we fight for it.

The day i realized this and that i wouldn't live to see said bright future was rather disheartening

https://m.soundcloud.com/distantdreamz/were-in-fuckin-1320-motherfucker

I was gonna post this lol

If you want to be "accurate" middle age and now would be the same line (because the last millennia is about 0.33...% of homo sapien's history) and bright future would be pretty fucking long because there's at least a billion years ahead of us for life on Earth, probably more...

Oh I can see you don't read news

Lol
- Humans aren't the only beings living on this planet and other life forms will thrive long past the point where homo sapiens disappear.
because there's at least a billion years ahead of us for life on Earth, probably more...

That's optimistic. With record heat levels, it's going to become uninhabitable for humans long before a billion years.
- That's just humans though, plenty of life will go on living and they will probably be better off without a global apex predator in their way. That will be the true bright future for life on Earth. Maybe we'll eventually manage to better ourselves and solve the climate problems we're facing too, time will tell.
  
  One thing though, some sections of the planet will become uninhabitable for humans, not all though. People have been living in the scorching heat of the desert for thousands of years, if the average summer temperature closer to the poles increases to 27 instead of 22, people will manage to survive there, worst case they'll adopt a nomadic lifestyle again.