How would you characterize Muskian futures in ideological terms? (Mars colonization, aggressive climate action, lots of sci-fi visions)? It's neither the basic SV neowhig libertarian future, nor the basic NYT-op-ed progressive future. Nor is it Thiel-Trump reactionary.
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Muskism is basically “we can actually do real things that matter” where SV libertarianism and standard-issue progressivism both boil down to “we can get some legislation passed and force the outgroup to be more virtuous”
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Projective Capitalism. Musk's future takes an *averaged* trajectory of the last 50 years of sci fi cultural imagination and combines it with economic feasibility.
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IMO it's a slightly more boring (but more likely) future reality than than that proposed by SV - which wins interestingness via its combination of psychedelics / conservation / marxism heritage
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Interesting analogy. I am not in the R&M fandom, but I am familiar with it; this gives me a new tool to understand the Musk extended universe. (I'd mostly written it off for various reasons, some entirely unjustified).
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