This article surveys ideas of the future— specifically whether it will be (i) worse, (ii) the same, or (iii) better, for individuals and/or society—in the Pali imaginaire, a corpus of texts produced and circulated in the agrarian states of premodern South and Southeast Asia and which survives as a resource for Buddhists in the vastly changed conditions of the modern, globalized world.
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Abstract 17 The future will be worse 19 The future will be the same 20 The future will be better 20 References 22
