Where has the leftโs technological audacity gone?
They have gone clownishly degrowther even though tech is the only way out of our current predicament and is the only path to any sort of livable future or the non-extinction of humanity. Also, eventually, the species will have to become multiplanetary and that is going to take tech we can barely even dream about yet.
No, it’s not impossible (no matter what you might read that is now a nearly-ubiquitous opinion). Yes, it is very very hard. But who gives a fuck? Metallurgy is hard. Harder than we give it credit for. Reading and writing is hard. Building an airplane is hard. And despite all that, we have cars, widespread literacy and A320s — all things that would have been claimed to be something “impossible” in various time periods.
It does not matter even a little bit about what current dipshit mooks think about what the future will be like. They’ll have (over the long time span) no say in building it. Their opinions are irrelevant chaff. Building is what matters, and we should do that.