Imagine how life must have been back when you actually believed in a brighter future. Today, nobody makes time capsules, as we are not quite sure there will be anybody around to open them in the future and if there is anybody around they will probably hate us.
I think about this often, how exciting life must be in a socialist state. Working towards a better future and having hope versus just trying to keep your head above water and feeling hopeless under capitalism.
"We know, our time is interesting, but yours is more interesting. We have built communism, and you are living under communism"
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:this: when you read enough theory to activate your commie clairvoyance powers
I want to apologize to every communist that has been betrayed by the fall of the Soviet Union.
your spaceships have been long prowling the Galaxy
Uh... what? I think they've been a bit overambitious.
imagine the perspective of an average Russian person around 50 years old in 1971. They watched the country being mostly farmland, get rapidly industrialized, then go to space. Then people were walking on the moon. We have the gift of hindsight, but they didn't. It all seemed like developments happening at a breakneck pace. Only 12 years separates the launch of sputnik and Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon. Extrapolate that out another 50 years and you could easily imagine going to Jupiter or whatever.
No you can't, because speed of R&D isn't the same thing as speed of travel.
I get a certain degree of utopian optimism. But "oh man, if only the USSR were still around we'd have light speed human transit by the mid-90s" is a step removed from insisting we should have Time Travel by now.
I'm not saying it was realistic or that it would have happened if the USSR were still around. I'm saying what the perspective of an average person uninvolved in any of the processes would have been. Of course they would have been overly optimistic.
I’m saying what the perspective of an average person uninvolved in any of the process would have been
That is not the message the OP conveys.
The message is that a time capsule from 1967 was dug up and was overly optimistic about the future. It sounds like it had roughly standard optimism for the future. I'm reading the article now and I can't seem to find who wrote the message, it's just described as being written by "communists." They were aiming a little high, but I don't know fam, from the perspective of a person living in 1967 the world had already gone through rapid technological development that seemed like it had no end. Ask any average person now what 2071 will look like and you'll either be told we'll all be dead or it'll be a technological wonderland full of cybernetics and teleporters or whatever.
Don't make me shove your locker into another, slightly larger, locker.
“oh man, if only the USSR were still around we’d have light speed human transit by the mid-90s”
What are you talking about dude, no one said that. They said that from the perspective of a 50 year old Russian person in 1971 that might seem possible.
One of the comments, roughly paraphrased:
"If only they knew what would become of the country.....CAPITALISM KILLS!"
