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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. | 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 | |||
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