yeah I know they were only going to seal them for 50 years yet they are talking about visiting other galaxies and crazy sci-fi like stuff. It was the 60s though so with all the post war new technology and at the peak of Soviet power I understand why they dreamed so big. People don’t think like that anymore.
Would have been kinda reasonable to be so optimistic. Compare 1967 to 1917 in terms of how fast technology and society developed, extrapolate that out another 50 years. We’re living in a disappointment to those dreamers.
Even in the 90s End Of History phase there was still this kind of optimism, we’d have nanotech making everything we need from sunlight and dirt and genetic engineering would conquer human health.
It’s really the last 20 years that have seen those dreams crushed as capitalism stopped looting the Soviet ruins and started looting the core…
……yeah, about that
:stalin-bummed:
What I would give to have that kind of hope and trust in the progress of humanity
:ussr-cry:
and what do Americans imagine 50 years from now? being the last survivor in their heavily armed bunker
Tbh, being able to imagine a future is a foreign concept to me. I feel as if we are trapped in an unchanging present, waiting for something to break but not knowing what form that will take.
I was never really able to imagine the future, except for one brief delusional moment during the second bernie campaign, now I don’t like thinking about it anymore
