What will they call this era in the future?

[ck4829]

Thousands of years from now, a family will come out of their cave and start a fire to warm themselves and look up at the sky and see the stars and old satellites and space junk also moving throughout the sky.

And they will stories about the past. About a nation that was thought to be the most powerful in the world, but this nation could not handle a domestic crisis and their dependence on oil proved to be their downfall.

What will they call this era?

Who will they talk about?

[Booster]

1. "The Fucked Up Era" and the dimson who caused it.

[flamingyouth]

2. Pax Americana

[arwalden]

Ooooo. Good One.

[rzemanfl]

3. I have been calling it the "uh-ohs!" for several years. n/t

[Maple]

4. America is not the world

[Kurovski]

5. "The Age Of The Glorious Rebirth"

That is, if fearless leader continues to lead us down the path of fascism and theocracy and gets to write the history books.

[JVS]

6. The past

:smoke:

[understandinglife]

7. Fall of American Imperialism

Peace.

[NorCalDem]

18. I think your answer is the best! n/t

[Zenlitened]

8. America: The Clusterfuck Years.

The story of how Bush and his handlers destroyed a once-great nation.

Let's hope we're finally ready to write an epilogue: How the people rose up and took their country back from those who tried to kill it.

[sweetheart]

9. This era will be called "the past"

:-)

They will tell stories about how god created the world in 7 days, and
is only 400 years old... And all the evidence of older phenomena will
be discounted, as god created carbon dating too to fool people who
have flawed evidence-based decision capabilities, that those people
will be proven wrong, and any intelligence from the past will be
forgotten for the stupidest propaganda from the present.

[politicaholic]

10. Well...it won't have "Gay" or "Progressive" in the title...

Probably the terror era or perhaps:

"The Era in which our God George W. Bush erraticated the heathenous vermin of sodomites and liberals to launch a new era of rightiousness and mental cleanliness in preparation for the impending rapture."

[spanone]

11. The fucking bush* era. A low-point in mankinds evolution.

[Horse with no Name]

12. Earth will be just another planet in the solar system

that is uninhabitable.
Makes you wonder if all these other "useless planets" started out with a glutonous society that killed it and rendered it useless?

[0rganism]

13. The Age of Disorder

The Age of Reason is over
This is the Age of Disorder
Disorder...
Disorder...

(thx to Casey Neill/Riff Raff/Disorder)

[longship]

14. Disney's NOLAland!

n/t

[hankthecrank]

15. Sci-fi has been down this path many times

You assume that we will be here to talk about this era.

[ck4829]

20. Who knows

Maybe when this time comes, a rat will be talking to a cockroach "Did you hear about the idiot who became President back in 2000 and the people in that country just sat there and let it happen?"

[tom_paine]

16. (the beginning of) The Age of Totalitarianism

Although I wonder if there will be any honest historians left un-Gulagged to call it what it is/was.

In either case, freedom has left Imperial Amerika (though it is still possible to pretend) and now flickers more dimly than at any time since 1776, I think.

If Europe goes Bushist in the next 40 years, an entirely possible outcome, than I think the Human Race is headed for the pre-1776 era, when there was no nation that was free anywhere.

[Maple]

17. Don't worry

The rest of us will rescue you.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

19. The Age of Incompetence.

When the Buck Never Stopped.

[blonndee]

21. "The Age of the Neocons." I was actually thinking about this today

and how it was a progression of the greedy, selfish Reagan era when "we" REALLY started to let big business rape us and our country.

[YDogg]

22. The six years of Dubya's presidency*

God willing.

[Minstrel Boy]

23. The End

of everything that stands - the end

[The Jacobin]

24. They will talk about Cicero and Rome and forget about us

Your post smacks of hubris.