5th June 2023, 11:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 5th June 2023, 11:57 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Oh you sir are absolutely a leftist, and yes, it's amazing that the whole "older generations lean more right" thing seems to be dying as a pattern. Oh I'm still a grumpy old who thinks games aren't what they used to be and all, but as far as public policy goes? I'm only getting more and more progressive. The latest thing I've been obsessing over to the annoyance of everyone around me? Walkable cities that emphasize public transit and bikes over North America's car addiction. Funny thing is from a certain perspective that's about as "conservative" as it gets because what I'm asking for is to return to 1910's era city design and, where our modern tech allows it, emphasize the sort of ideas futurists of that era had envisioned like merging buildings with nature and verticalization of public transit. (That is, turning the tops of buildings into garden spaces and linking together those top sections with nearby buildings with skywalks, which means establishing that buildings overall are publicly owned and only the specific sections within can be privately owned.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)