Aren t you just the latest round of philosophical Luddites the kind of pessimists that critics like Virginia Postel warns us about in her book, The Enemies of the Future?
We embrace the philosophy of what works. Postrel, much like Ayn Rand, embraces individual freedom and a faith in creativity and market forces. We like creativity, freedom and market forces. They re great! Everyone ought to try them sometime! However, Postrel does not support trying to predict or control the future in any way, and we do plan to control the future by changing the suicidal course we are on. The future isn t magical or totally unknowable, especially where negative consequences to current trends are concerned. If you stick your finger in a light socket you can probably wager with winning accuracy on what will happen next. We aren t talking about rocket science here. We re talking about trends that are unsustainable, period. So let s use all of the creativity and technological innovation and market mobilization we can to move forward to a very bright future rather than to march blindly and in lockstep towards the 13th century.
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