Utopie

From our friend Channing:
This should go to the dystalgia blog. It's what the french thought the
year 2000 would be like in 1910 -

http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/feuill/index.htm

This link also showed up through another friend on a discussion group I am part of, and it makes me wonder about the attraction to things like this. I think it may be dystalgic, indeed, perhaps because there seems to be so much hope and expectation inscribed in expressions and ideas such as these. It's not that they are naive; quite the opposite. Maybe we don't see ourselves as having that kind of hope or imagination for the future. I myself have become increasingly afraid of the future, envisioning it mostly as a bleak wasteland populated by sociopaths. But this is not a platform for discussing the future, so I will leave it at that.