One reason I champion mediocrity is that alternative is obviously dystopian:
Upper class of exceptional superhumans
Middle class of robots
Lower class of broken, institutionalized people who failed to be exceptional, and regressed right past human mean to “driven crazy.”
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The polyannish hope is basically Lake Wobegon: almost everybody “above average” in some magical sense with maybe a few broken people in nice, humane 5-star mental institutions. This does not track with regression to the mean.
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Sometimes I suspect Star Trek is secretly dystopian, with anyone not on Starfleet hooked 24/7 on mindless holodeck porn...
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Borg as socialists always felt like the subtext to me
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