If you want to imagine the future, picture the human race somehow getting its brain caught in one of those novelty finger traps and not being able to get it out, forever.
I just ate Simpsons-Viking-Debate-grade brain poison by accident, through no fault of my friends, and I think I'm gonna bail on the Internet for a bit. There's a whole fucking city out here that presents no more deadly memetic labyrinths than, "Huh, I wonder what that pretty crow is thinking?" Gonna go talk to her instead. 😽