Jubilee Prosperity

Physical fitness working out may go out of style as sports franchises fail. The U.S. space program may shut down. Conspiracy theories may become more plentiful as more people may believe them. People may rate the future increasingly less promising. Intergroup cross-cultural relations may become strained and violent. The suicide rate may go up. Mob violence may break out more often than it did from 1982 to 2000. Mass demonstrations expressing anger and intolerance with some social situations may occur. Hemlines may fall, and bright colors and nudity go out of style. Music sales may slump, and popular music may become angry, militant or sad. Hedonism may flourish. Pornography will become more bizarre. These trends will meet with social and political backlash, as mainstream behavior may simultaneously become more conservative. Popular self-help books may change focus from wealth and self-improvement to surviving hard times and overcoming adversaries. Cults and other escapist communities may be established. Food scares, probably including mad cow disease and contaminated imports, may hit the U.S. Most restaurants may decline in popularity. “Family-style” comfort food and home cooking may become popular.

Interest in producing the plays of Shakespeare may wane. Anti-gay, racist and xenophobic entities may organize and openly pursue their agendas. Areas of cities may become dangerous places in which street gangs “rule” some neighborhoods. The number of Broadway shows may fall dramatically. Disney may close its NYC theater productions, and Times Square may become X-rated again. Well-off people may adopt poverty fashions that conceal rather than accentuate their wealth. Gangsters, pirates and other outlaws may become popular folk heroes. Entertainment media may feature fewer heroes and more anti-heroes. The Olympic Games may be cancelled at least once, if not terminated altogether. Organized labor may grow and become more active. The number and severity of strikes may rise. Many amusement parks, entertainment centers, movie theaters and sport stadiums may close. The number of coffee and donut shops in the United States may decline substantially. Per capita consumption of alcohol and other depressants may increase. Public art, such as sculptures and murals, may become giant, ponderous and ugly. One or more of the sciences may go through a “paradigm shift.” Terrible secret activities that we could not even imagine may take place, some to be revealed only years or decades later. Euthanesia and eugenics may return.

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