>>11937124Well alright then think about it this way. You're the average Trump supporter. Or Bernie, doesn't matter. Suddenly, space expansion or AI, whichever's your favorite flavor of sci-fi, becomes close to being feasible. Can you even gather a joule of a fuck about the social issues you cared prior to this when the halo of your sci-fi utopia shines a hundred times brighter than them? I think that this will be the inevitable paradigm shift of humanity, when people realize how powerful technology actually is and that instead of trying to stop immigrants from mutting you, or to stop billionaires from stealing from you, that you can just empower everyone equally and push the social issues to a later stage, maybe by expanding wide or maybe by expanding tall. Who wants to live with the thought that his son can develop cancer tomorrow when the money for XYZ programs can go towards cancer treatment and medical development instead? It's just that such defined ideologies, that are not a technocracy, do not exist as of right now and everyone's spinning on the same social issues as the Roman Republic was 2000 years ago. We got onto the exponential improvement graph but we never really left the old paradigm of political and social understanding and are still stuck debating enlightenment ideals, which were proven useless and to bear no fruit long ago, while using the same bureaucracy as we've been using in the past two centuries when we were dying of a simple flu like savages. No way that things will just keep going on like this.
