You know, I was 50/50, but I am disappointed that since we ended up in the dystopia, there isn't as much artisanal neon as I expected.

We were promised hoverboards! We didn't even get hoverboards! Was all of Back to the Future just a lie? The future sucks.

We have been unable to engineer trees so that they grow hundreds of meters high...

Utopianism is a centuries-old pursuit. And, in its defense, the pursuit of a utopia has yielded a steady crop of genuinely beneficial human achievements.

But I do think people mistake being young and naive with being on the cusp of a brighter future. As though US politics wasn't a clown-car full of bigots, sex-pests, and greedy fuckwits under Bush or Reagan or Nixon.

We are a nation that yearns for a New Deal but refuses to acknowledge the real possibility of a Great Depression past every horizon. We want another Lincoln to lead us, but are scared shitless of a new Civil War. We want to go at the Constitution with a Sharpie and an eye towards the 21st century, but we don't want to endure the Revolution that comes with it.

It's not just MAGA yelling that, it's pretty much the entire political "establishment".

"Yeah, I'm going to need €50 billion for the suspended monorail to make a very tight sweeping arc alongside the valley. No I don't care it'll only be able to do 30 km/h, it'll look sick".

90's kids chiming in the image in the upper half above was ALSO supposed to be the surface of MARS.

Sorry, but most our trees can do is 100 meters.

Any game that fit this solar punk vibes ? I need hope

Wow kid you was really naive huh?