Socialism failed so hard that the overwhelming majority of socialist countries recognized that socialism is inferior to capitalism, bailed, and adopted capitalism. Now that capitalism has brought about AI, socialists unironically suggest reverting to the inferior system, in hopes that it will have (magically) been rendered superior... by a product of capitalism.
This is the self-defeating contradiction at the heart of progressivism: it is a cult of good intentions. It doesn't matter if the promise of socialism has already been proved, on a global scale, to be illusory. It's the intentions that matter, and in their minds no amount of failure will ever tarnish good intentions.
I'm convinced that susceptibility to such pre-enlightenment "thinking" is a Great Filter.
This is the self-defeating contradiction at the heart of progressivism: it is a cult of good intentions. It doesn't matter if the promise of socialism has already been proved, on a global scale, to be illusory. It's the intentions that matter, and in their minds no amount of failure will ever tarnish good intentions.
I'm convinced that susceptibility to such pre-enlightenment "thinking" is a Great Filter.