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>We Wish  - James Howard Kunstler - 
I may not necessary disagree with you. Sometimes, the difference is just a matter of vocabulary : I would use "joy", not "fun" as expression of a fleeing behavior from reality (well, its true that humans hate reality and love fairtales).

There is always an alternative, but the alternative is not necesseraly to our advantage or a progress. The world in which man has dropped in does not provide him the guarantee of a good future. Its a matter of belief and you don't choose what you believe in. Instead of being optimistic or pessimistic, you also may be neither : whatever the future, the world is magnificent, the existence remains a mystery forever and human life a tragic adventure ("you reap what you saw") and this is why man is able to enjoy it


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Beginning of the headline :Wishful thinking now runs so thick and deep across the USA that our hopes for a credible future are being drowned in a tidal wave of yellow smiley-face stories recklessly issued by institutions that ought to know better. A case in point is the Charles C. Mann's tragically dumb cover story in the current Atlantic magazine -- "We Will Never Run Out of Oil" * -- setting out in great detail the entire panoply of techno-narcissistic "solutions" to our energy predicament. Another case in point was sen... Read More
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