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…for humans, anyway, is this Slate article, from which I quote: It’s all a lie. This is the thing about creativity that is rarely acknowledged: Most people don’t actually like it. Studies confirm what many creative people have suspected all along: People are biased against creative thinking, despite
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Utopia: Well, the Imperials would certainly like to think that they live in one, or at least an asymptotic approach to one, anyway. Of course, as we pointed out back in Imperial Dream, the Empire is a utopia for people who think the way that the Imperials think people ought
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Played straight at both ends. The greater galaxy, by and large, is a cynical place. It may not be a Crapsack World – hell, it doesn’t even come close to a Crapsack World – but it is a realistic universe – which is to say, entirely