Optimistic Idealism. Dead? Boring?

[Louanne Learning]

potentially shifts the work from fiction toward propaganda.

interesting point. But if the writer really believes in it, is it propaganda? And do we need to understand his/her aims?

 

[Louanne Learning]

Some people have a pretty convenient, sunshine and roses view of natural order and laws,

i don't think that is me. It's not about being sunshine and roses, but what we are more adapted to

 

[Stuart Dren]

i don't think that is me. It's not about being sunshine and roses, but what we are more adapted to

Oh, fair. It's a tradeoff (e.g. some might consider us worse off with abundance of electric light, the fact that pornography and mortar shells exist) I'm always willing to make.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Oh, fair. It's a tradeoff

Good way of putting it. I love electricity. I love my central heat. But looking at the organization of society from the macro view, we've got a society built on domination, state over citizen, rich over poor, winners and losers, and lots of people falling through the cracks.

 

[Stuart Dren]

Good way of putting it. I love electricity. I love my central heat. But looking at the organization of society from the macro view, we've got a society built on domination, state over citizen, rich over poor, winners and losers, and lots of people falling through the cracks.

Well they say everyone has an anarchist inside of them trying to get out.

I see a lot of winners and losers in nature, too. Entire species go extinct, and it's not even always our fault.

 

[Louanne Learning]

winners and losers in nature, too

I got a feeling no-one was "homeless" ten thousand years ago