• ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Same.

    I hate how modern science fiction and futurism is just "the same capitalist hellhole we live in now but with lasers and stuff". I hate how so many authors imagine that we'll continue to have the same petty wars when the idea of a war in space become more and more absurd the more you think about it, the distances involved alone makes war on an interplanetary scale impossible.

    It's all so imprint with this extremely liberal idealism even academia isn't speared. For example, I don't know if you've heard of "grabby aliens". It's a completely serious and unironic proposal for a "solution" to the Fermi paradox, the author is a famous scientist, the same guy who proposed the "great filter" hypothesis. It supposes that alien civilizations start expending in the universe and taking over star systems at a large fraction of the speed of light and because of that if we could see aliens they would be here instead of us and that's why we don't see aliens. Even in this short TL;DR there is glaringly obvious problems. This theory imediately falls apart as soon as you start asking questions about those "grabby aliens", which as you might have guessed are justified ans an assumption by the classic liberal "greed, competition and expansionism is natural so-true"

    The average “futurology” devotee handwaves all of that and just says “there are that many resources out there” and then thoughts terminate, leaving only a smug smile and thoughts of passive income from renting out their ZYBERTRUKKKs on Autopilot™ once the kinks are worked out.

    Exactly, the capitalism brainrot is deep with those types. The epic space colony must be handled by private companies to them, even the dreams of cool futuristic space habitats must be milked for profit. Even the few ones who have a more grounded view of how we could create industries and permanents outposts don't escape the mind virus. I found a youtube channel all about creating a spaceport and permanent bases on the moon a few days ago, and his plan to develop it is unironically space tourism for assholes billionaires and other private investments.

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      15 days ago

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      • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 months ago

        It is easier to imagine faster than light travel than the end of capitalism.

        The take away of this entire thread.

        I hope we'll start seeing some based leftist science fiction stories on our creative writing community as the platform grows. See you in space comrade yuri