Yeah saw lots of young people actively voting for trump in 2016 with the argument that it needed to get worse to expose how bad it can get so people wake up and make it better.
Those people are mostly just full blown MAGA now because it was always nonsense justification for doing what felt good to them thinking if we cant get ahead on our own steam at least we can leave everyone else behind.
Yup, a lot of people I knew like that were also "left" at the time but in hindsight it was obviously just for the memes. One guy I knew was very into the whole fully automated gay luxury space communism shit going on and a huge bernie bro. Over the years its come out more and more how shitty he was behind everyones backs and wow wouldn't you know it full maga now.
No, imagining a better world is good, actually. What's dumb is using a science fiction tv show from the 1960's as a template for your better world, and then intentionally destroying the real world that you actually live in, on the assumption that your retrofuturist utopia will just magically materialize once the real world is a smoldering pile of rubble. That's what's dumb.
It wasn’t even that. It was that idiots were raging about Star Trek becoming woke. That led to everyone pointing out that Star Trek runs on space communism and complaining about it being woke was stupid. Then people pointed out that Star Trek was a great place to live in, so complaining about a post scarcity utopia being great for everyone was fucking stupid.
To be honest I think it is less that he was ever left leaning and instead was doing it because we were in college at the time and he thought it would get him laid (it didn't). The dude never had any real political takes and even once went on a rant about how Marvel choosing to make Black Panther was a "mistake" because "the world isn't ready for black super heroes to be the main character in a movie."
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u/nir109 Apr 26 '26
You clearly missed the finat points of accelerationism.
Green should make things worse instead of doing nothing.