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Every generation feels like they're eve of the next big thing; that right around the corner is the neu-rennaisance that will change our world forever. We believe this because we are self-important and because foresight travels near the speed of light. We know that things will happen and, in our willful ignorance, we assume we will live to see it all go down. This assumption, however, will drive many people to complacency and bitterness as we grow old and realize our dreams were nothing more than idealistic pulp fiction. Or worse, that they've mutated into something horrible through greed and corruption. There's a museum in seattle dedicated to "The Future That Never Was" with models and drawings of flying cars, jet packs, plastic furniture, and meals in pill form. Our parents pushed the rise of flower power, watched it crash and burn, and bought into retro fads 25 years later.

So where are we? It certainly seems different than it was then. They say our intellectual evolution has increased exponentially, so maybe? Maybe we will see the future we've been promised before we grow old and die. There's a team of mad scientists in Nevada trying to stop the deterioration of red blood and brain cells. Nano-technology promises microscopic intracellular robots programmed to fight disease, repair our nerves and regenerate our immune system. If we can't innovate quick enough, perhaps we can outlast our conservative beaurocracy and it's retarding effect on our evolution. The news wire is full of maniacs shouting things like "unnatural" and "god's will" when confronted with idea of extending our lifespan and to them I say "Fine with me! Good riddance!" We'll outlast those cranial dinosaurs as well.

It could be all hype. Perhaps the bursting of the internet bubble was just foreshadowing to a much greater technological cataclysm. We don't yet know the limits of our human brain. Who's to say we've already reached it and we just haven't realized it yet? In the words of Melvin Udall, "what if this is as good as it gets?" I don't know about you, but I'd go back to flower power. Grow me a paoti farm, tune in, turn off, drop out. Without a stronger, smarter, progressive society to look forward, those dirty hippies would be the only ones still smiling. Them and the filthy rich, guilt monger clergymen selling hope like they did in the dark ages. Fuck those assholes. At least I've still got something tangible to look forward to.

But no... maybe I'm just a young, stupid idealist but I don't think we are the doomed. Not yet. Generations before us have failed to find their utopias, but we are growing exponentially, despite the best efforts of our ever loving mass media. For now, I've got a great deal of hope for the future and I'm excited at the possibility that I may have some part in in it, however small. The Great W. Satan may have given up on our planet, but he's never been one to finish a job anyhow. He'll quit before he's completely fucked us all over and the earth will be inherited by the bright. I'm looking forward to it.

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as long as democracy lives within a given nation, utopia cannot exist. why? because people like to think. people voice their opinions. people like you don't shutup. people like you are what make this country what it is--great. for the majority, however, it's all in vain because of the large percentage of ignorant americans as opposed to educated ones.

you aren't an idealist. you're just pretending to be one. i think of you more of a realist. in this post you're even an optomistic realist. most of the time you're not.

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