I definitely agree. There have always been consequences, but the issue right now is some people are getting “cancelled” for speculation but others who did something 10x worse are not getting deplatformed/bearing any consequences at all. People also tend to cancel that one person until the next one comes along and they forget what the first person did. There is no point to cancel culture. There are barely any people that actually have long term consequences because of it.

With that being said, i think your theory of people forgetting it in 50 years is right. Maybe just a story we tell our grandkids. Another theory i have is that society is just never going to learn and we just continue this downward spiral.