Remember ‘the future’? Not the one where nobody is allowed plastic drinking straws and we all have to eat bugs and sit on furniture made out of recycled cardboard, the other one. The cool one.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) July 27, 2019

I remember. It’s one of the reasons I no longer describe myself as a liberal or even a socialist. I don’t know what I am, exactly, but none of those things, and no ideology that has ever existed. Perhaps I am too old to have a new mind, but I still think it’s worth a go.