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How the Year 2440 was Imagined in 1771
Kings and Things ^
| 11/4/24
Posted on 02/09/2025 1:13:42 PM PST by Eleutheria5
In 1771, French author Louis-Sébastien Mercier published the novel "The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One" Written from the perspective of an 18th century man who falls asleep and wakes up in Paris nearly 700 years later, the book is a fascinating example of utopian retro-futurism.
Mercier imagines a world transformed by philosophy and reason, with an agrarian society that has invented hologram-like technology. The video delves into Mercier's depictions of the future city of Paris, advancements in science and culture, changes in religion and education, and his ideas for an ideal government led by an egalitarian philosopher-king. Now centuries old, this work offers a fascinating glimpse into one of the earliest portrayals of the future in fiction.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
TOPICS: History; Reference; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1771; 2440; france; futurism; godsgravesglyphs; louissmercier; mercier; paris; past; swordcontrol; theyear2440; utopia
What? No Terminator? No Blade Runner? Road Warrior? Shocking!
To: Eleutheria5
I predict Paris will be 100% islamic by 2440.
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posted on
02/09/2025 1:16:09 PM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: Eleutheria5
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posted on
02/09/2025 1:20:23 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I’ll be dipped in....! You beat me to it!
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posted on
02/09/2025 1:20:59 PM PST
by
GingisK
To: EvilCapitalist
I predict Paris will be 100% islamic by 2440.
2040
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posted on
02/09/2025 1:26:52 PM PST
by
iamgalt
To: Eleutheria5
9 minutes passed before I was bored completely to death.
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posted on
02/09/2025 1:34:57 PM PST
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
To: higgmeister
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posted on
02/09/2025 1:45:39 PM PST
by
Codeflier
(Don't worry....be happy. )
To: Codeflier; higgmeister
You made it that long? Maybe we need some sort of award that can be given to these bastions of patience.
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posted on
02/09/2025 1:49:58 PM PST
by
GingisK
To: EvilCapitalist
Rubbish. Islam will have run its course and been abandoned by then.
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posted on
02/09/2025 2:02:48 PM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
To: Eleutheria5
Pretty scary future actually.
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posted on
02/09/2025 2:05:59 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
To: piasa
Massive book burnings sounds a lot like the recent past.
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posted on
02/09/2025 2:13:07 PM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
02/09/2025 2:32:39 PM PST
by
Dr.Deth
To: iamgalt
Islamic people will be the majority all over Western Europe sometime later in this century. Low native European birth rates and high immigrant birth rates will assure this, certainly in France and Germany. Britain is another issue, as a large portion of their immigrant population comes from their former African colonies like Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria, which are Christian majority countries, as well as mostly Hindu India. There will be a tipping point where the remaining native Germans and Frenchmen will begin to assimilate into the Muslim "borg".
,
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posted on
02/09/2025 3:22:29 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Eleutheria5
Just another leftist vision of a world of controlled thought.
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posted on
02/09/2025 4:13:53 PM PST
by
nicollo
(Trump beat the cheat! )
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