This session went very similarly to the one yesterday afternoon. One interesting bit of feedback I did get was that the work made them think about how we might be remembered in the future in the same way that we remember the past. For example we remember Britain’s role in the slave trade as as abhorrent and inexcusable, yet at the time many thought it justifiable and pragmatic. Another example is how we think about medical treatment in the past as ridiculous (humours, bleeding patients, wandering wombs etc.) yet today people believe that drinking juice will remove ‘toxins’ from your body, or that proven medical treatments such as vaccines are dangerous. In the future people might find our casual use of antibiotics unbelievable given that it is very likely many strains of bacteria will become more resistant or totally resistant to all forms of antibiotics.
It’s interesting to consider that in the future people might look back at our insatiable quest for finite resources as horrific and unimaginable, which could frame and inform their own cultural values.
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