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submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a dream from a time of optimism that never came to pass. The current day meme isn’t about literal flying cars, it’s about a hopeful world full of potential that didn’t happen.

But that's my point. It could have never come to pass.

It's the sort of thinking you'll find among comicbook writers and kids running around going "zooom zooooooom". It's the same kind of "optimism" that makes people think you can take a rocket from New York to Paris for a quick croissant. The sort of optism that has cities on the moon simply just to be there for no purpose. It's wishful thinking that can't and won't ever happen, and anyone trying to seriously sell that is either lying or an idiot.

It's on a level of "What if I find a magic rock one day? I could end world hunger!" You can call that optistic, or you can call it delusional.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're not wrong, but I only came here to try and explain the meme.

Three quarters of a century ago, a different society than ours suggested flying cars as a possibility for the world, and now we make funny pictures about it.

Whether that was at the time objectively right or wrong for them to believe is a whole new topic that I'm not equipped to get into.