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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">glen wrote:<br>
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Optimism is kinda gross and sticky.
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<blockquote>But starts out soft and fuzzy like cotton candy?<br>
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<p>Pessimism has it's downsides too?</p>
<p>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)). </p>
<p>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?).</p>
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<p><i>Every Utopia is someone (else's) Dystopia</i><br>
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