Kinda hard to build FTL tech on imagination instead of billions/trillions of dollars of research, insane skills in math, physics, etc.
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Rooskie91@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
The first and second images are fantasy.
How come everyone wants to imagine the future is great and the past was great (it wasn’t, it’s literally just now but worse), but nobody wants to imagine what they could do to make now better?
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
tatann@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Last image from 2nd line is cyberpunk, that’s what a techno-fascist country is becoming. OP might be able to live it, he just have to move to the US (or wait if he already lives there)
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Even if you concede “Knights exist” and “Astronauts exist”, the idea that you’re going to be a knight much less a fucking astronaut relative to being a subsistence farmer or a digital desk jockey…
That’s the other joke, though. Both these images are of people marching off to war. Presumably, these knights are going to the Holy Land to bake in the hot sun and shit themselves to death from cholera. Meanwhile, the interstellar colony ships are going to be rationing everything from calories to moles of oxygen.
The modern era guy doing a simple 9-5 desk job, then going home to fuck his hot wife and play catch with his adorable kids has it pretty great by comparison.