Scenario: If Eternity Should Fail

In the western world, there is a large sentiment that we have reached a so-called "end of history", where large scale uprisings and political shifts have been eradicated. This, "eternity" if you will, postulates that either we have reached the optimum form of governance, with any sort of sentiment against this government being insignificant and misguided, or that modern western nation-states have entirely outpaced the ability for the proletariat to mount any sort of successful uprising. This sentiment is remarkably popular within the United States, and despite the large economic downturns of the 21st century, the idea of a popular uprising or any sort of political revolution seems unlikely to most, and unfathomable to others. Though with the rise of cybernetic labor and international competition in the form of the People's Republic of China, it seems inevitable that the old order is coming to a sharp end, and with it, citizens will see a significant decrease in their standards of living.

This all begs several questions: How will the people of the old powers react to the sudden and sharp collapse of the system that they have spent their lives in? What of future technologies that might revolutionize the very concept of humanity? How will these factors interact with each other? This scenario attempts to answer these questions in a meaningful way.

Scenario Speculations
For those of you who understand the terminology of Alternate History, this section is going to be more familiar under the name of Point of Divergence. With this being Future, there is no diverging from a set timeline for there to be a point of divergence.

With the decline of the West and the United States in particular, there will be a rise in sympathy for radical ideologies, as is commonplace in declining nations where the status quo has been proven ineffective in maintaining standards of living. With that in mind, we also see the rise in leftist sentiment being much quicker and widespread than the rise in fascist sentiment or anarcho-liberal sentiment, and thus it is safe to assume that leftism will be the main challenger to the current status quo.

The rise in pro-LGBTQIA+ sentiment has led to mass movements for and against their acceptance into society. These movements have accomplished much in the way of legal recognition and cultural acceptance, but still have far to go in several key aspects. This is nowhere near even the midpoint of queer rights, however, as the world is on the verge of the largest revolution in the idea of humanity in recorded history, transhumanism. Transhumanism will become the new battleground of queer rights, and will become a part of the greater left-movement.

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