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It's incredible how much of the "things getting better" hinges almost entirely on a small number of elected and unelected ultra wealthy people realizing the shit is over.
I was thinking today, randomly, how in fiction you might read from anytime from like 1950-1990 the US and USSR were working together in some sort of mutual respect in space stuff and it would lead to some fabulous future where we could all live our lives to their full potential, travel the universe as a species, etc.
I know it's still early on in this new "Cold War" the US is adamant on forcing with China, but I do wonder if there will be fiction made where the US and China finally reluctantly work together for the advancement of humanity. I almost feel like things are so bleak that these dreams can't be dreamed.
I try not to get too wrapped in some of this stuff, but it does seem those in the west at least have totally lost the ability to dream and desire something better. Dreams and industrial might were traded for consumption and mundanity
This is actually a really nice prospect for expanding some of my recent writing on how the USSR's success allowed it to serve as a kind of counterbalance stabilizing the liberal developmentalist pipe dream, if only briefly. Thanks for mentioning that