What's with this recent hopium trend where people seem to think that we'll become a space-faring utopia?

  • Mencoh [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    They also think that every new game, every hyped movie, everything is going to be the most amazing thing ever. Any hint of a scientific breakthrough is meme-ized, exaggerated, and posted to Facebook with a IFLS watermark. Something groundbreaking is always just around the corner. It's called the average consumer who buys into media hype. It makes money, it works, there's plenty of them.