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Comment author: advancedatheist 06 September 2014 02:55:09AM *  -2 points [-]

I thought about saying that I want to see "the future" because Neoreaction might succeed and I would find myself in a high-tech aristocracy right out of 20th Century science fiction. But then I remembered something I saw on TV in what must sound like the before-times to you youngsters. I watched this miniseries about the Holocaust in 1978, during my last semester of high school:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_(TV_miniseries)

I remember a scene where one of the characters in a women's concentration camp says she wanted to survive the war because she anticipated that Europe would become Communist, and thus according to her beliefs, she would find herself in more socially equitable environment. It didn't quite work out that way after a few decades, however.

If I had to bet on social trends over the next 300 years, I would favor something like Neoreaction as the social model because the Enlightenment's social model in the bigger pictures deviates from long term norms, while Neoreaction has something like regression to the mean working in its favor. This prospect must put the feminist women who have signed up for cryonics in an interesting predicament: Do they want to survive, only to spend their resumed lives in a conservative, patriarchal society which wouldn't tolerate the behavior they took for granted in the early 21st Century?