[shovel]

The old days sucked and nostalgia is lame.

The people who came before us had literally all the time in the world to make paradise and where is it? We're still terrorized by disease, we still fight with our neighbors in real wars with real body counts, we still have resource shortages. Sorry, everything we've done so far is a failure.

Where's our 50 year, 100 year, 500 year plan? Do we have one? Do we want to make the act of working obsolete? Do we want to make it possible to pursue research and personal development an attainable full-time occupation for anybody?

F nostalgia. F everything we've done already, it all sucked. F dying of the common cold, F not having access to all the world's knowledge on a pocket sized magic window, F classic cars that had oil leaks on the showroom floor, F carburetors and drum brakes and F the things we still have to worry about today, like getting a life ending disease from doing what our bodies demand. F borders, they're imaginary lines drawn by idiots who aren't even alive anymore.

Sorry, the past may have been incidentally green in some ways but it wasn't paradise. To maintain balance we either have to engineer more closed-loop solutions to our energy needs or we have to make less people. I don't see us working too hard on either of those things and our grandparents didn't even try at all.