> We are either too smart or too dumb to find god and tell him problems of our world The correct reaction to the world being awful is not to seek the help of a

> We are either too smart or too dumb to find god and tell him problems of our world The correct reaction to the world being awful is not to seek the help of a bronze age deus ex machina. The problem is not that we are too smart or too dumb for deities to help us, it's that they can't really help us on account of being fictional. The premise of futurism being dead seems conveniently modern because there is a lot of perceived (and actual) downturn economically. But the conviction that we can design a better future for ourselves is not coupled to that. At the core of our desire to improve ourselves as both a civilization and a collection of individuals is still the one big revelation from the Age of Enlightenment: that in the absence of the supernatural the universe is ours to discover and understand and that we can by virtue of our intellect become vastly more than what we are today. Nobody killed the futurist in me, although school and society at large certainly tried. Life is already better in the Western world than it used to be. All we have to do is to go forward. There are times when progress seems to be in serious danger but I'm still hopeful that we can and do find the motivation to keep marching. Which, again, is really all we have to do. Even at our current glacial pace, we'll get there.