glen wrote:
Optimism is kinda gross and sticky.
But starts out soft and fuzzy like cotton candy? Pessimism has it's downsides too?I find (techno) Utopianism worse than mere Optimism... maybe because I was born and raised into it by a moderately tech-interested father (coming of age WWII/50s) and grand-father (first of his hillbilly family to graduate high-school, much less get a Masters degree (Geology)).
They were both given to loving technical solutions to problems that only existed because of some other technical solution that had been (mis)applied previously (by themselves in some cases). They were much more innocent than I have tried to be... and yet... my Golden Age Sci Fi and Ayn Randian Libertarian canon was as toxic to my sensibilities as they appear to remain to be for Elno (without the financial leverage of much of a Trillion Dollars?).
/Every Utopia is someone (else's) Dystopia/
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