A story about bullshit and a feeling of belonging #thread #thefuture
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It was a Khrushchev era book about your typical future: flying cars, total victory of science, and of course, communism. It was titled something like, “You Will Live During Communism.”
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I felt like it was a very important, adult book. I felt like by imbibing the words on its pages, I was being initiated into the ranks of Smart People Who Know Things.
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I was nearly walking on air with this newly acquired feeling of self-importance and belonging to the very special group of People Who Know Things. And then I brought it home, and my parents laughed in my face. Turned out, it was all bullshit.
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I told it as an allegory for much of the punditry and much of the news coverage. That feeling of belonging to the ranks of Smart People Who Know Things is a lie. The end.
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