All of the mid-century paintings in the Whitney that were supposed to convey the crushing alienation of modern life now look like utopias where there were jobs and functioning infrastructure.
โ Adrian Chen (@AdrianChen) November 22, 2017
I guess the lesson is: things can always get worse.
Iโve had this thought, too. The dystopias of eras past, many of them at least, are starting to seem pretty appealing.