Utopia
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The apocalypse, if you’re the sort of person who sees the glass half-full. The singularity. Nirvana.
Personally, I’m a cynic, and I think it sounds ghastly. I rather like the sound of the apocalypse, on the other hand: the grim contemplation of what’s coming to me is swamped by the happy thoughts that so many other odious people are going to get what's coming to them.
Working definition
A quick fix whereby an appeal to forbearance/sacrifice/restraint/counter-incentivistic behaviour now — particularly based on simplistic principles one — leads to a state of bliss later
Examples of utopian visions
- Religions
- Communism
- Fascism
- Laissez-faire
- Bitcoin maximalism
- Effective altruism