So. Why do I not share the excitement of some for a $3.5M prize for an “optimistic” scifi movie?
Well it’s not just that I watched Angela Collier rip the piss out of contest sponsor Peter Diamandis for 100+ supplement a day transhumanist plan to live forever.
Diamandis is the chief cheerleader of the loons who believe in uploading consciousness to a hot warehouse in Utah to escape the sh*thole realty they helped create.
Transhumanism is an escapist fantasy of elites to escape their responsibilities.
It’s not even that this is basically a contest for rats to imagine a more optimistic ratty future
organised by cats.
And you can be sure the cats don’t want to be told by the rats that that their main problem is cats.
What these people mean when they say “optimistic” and “abundant” is
WE DON’T WANT TO F***ING HEAR ABOUT REAL PROBLEMS
But what really REALLY gets me is that these billioniare twats have READ NO SCIENCE FICTION.
Read Stand On Zanzibar. Read The Space Merchants. Read anything and everything by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Science fiction already showed you the future. And the reason that future isn’t more optimistic is BECAUSE OF THE KINDS OF PEOPLE SPONSORING THIS CONTEST.
Read Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. And realise that the only hope of any future we can call “optimistic” is in escaping the systems that makes these techbros rich and powerful.
No I won’t be entering 🤣
See my essay in the Jackpot to understand the future the likes of Diamandis are actually making 🔗👇👇
Damien Walter 