The only thing necessary for the triumph of dystopia is for good people to stay quiet and do nothing.
~not Edmund Burke
#refusedystopia
Loved how neatly this text builds an allegory for our time on Tolkien's imaginative palantír device:
https://charlesmcbryde.substack.com/p/the-palantir-is-a-dangerous-tool
Hot Take: We are past the point where dystopian stories of terrible futures are a sufficient warning to prevent those things.
We need clear cut, productive ideas and positive imagination.
Everything else is imagination freezing misery porn.