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Because he wrapped a combination of nerdy sci-fi and a theory of ever-ending economic growth around an updated Christian-ish proto-religion. A certain type of

• ilaksh 6y ago
  Everyone is wired to have a worldview. And although people think that their brains are different and have some special type of rationalism supporting their belief systems, that's not the case. I think that the reality is that worldviews are necessarily reductionist at some point. Think about just literally looking down a road far into the distance. If you can see far enough the stuff at the end of that road just looks like a tiny dot which you can't make out. No one can actually predict the future. Some people like me think that technology will probably shortly change things dramatically. I would be interested to hear your worldview and predictions for 2029 and the 2030s. But just a warning, I am going to classify those predictions as beliefs.
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