The word you are looking for is realism, being realistic, taking the whole current picture and context of human history into account.
Even if a magic snap of someone’s fingers poofed fascism out of the realm of things that can possibly exist in this universe, cool, awesome, we’re still looking at a few billion deaths in the next 25 - 50 years from climate change caused disasters, famines, economic collapse, massive migration crises, resource wars, etc etc.
Ok now unsnap those fingers and realize that fascism is the natural decay of capitalism as managed by democracy when the economy fails for most people.
We’ve hit the apex of industrial human civilization as we know it, its all downhill from here, maybe, maybe at some point roughly 75-100 years in the future, a much smaller human population than what presently exists will be able to pick up the pieces and begin some new kind of actual progress.
Or we Great Filter ourselves.
Or reality invents a magic mcguffin device like a compact, cheap to manufacture, over parity, safe for general use, nuclear fusion reactor, or something like that.
Tech progress costs money.
It is ultimately directed by those with money.
As things fall apart, don’t expect much revolutionary tech breakthroughs outside of applications toward surveillance, weaponry, and battlefield medicine.
Realism.
The word you are looking for is realism, being realistic, taking the whole current picture and context of human history into account.
Even if a magic snap of someone’s fingers poofed fascism out of the realm of things that can possibly exist in this universe, cool, awesome, we’re still looking at a few billion deaths in the next 25 - 50 years from climate change caused disasters, famines, economic collapse, massive migration crises, resource wars, etc etc.
Ok now unsnap those fingers and realize that fascism is the natural decay of capitalism as managed by democracy when the economy fails for most people.
We’ve hit the apex of industrial human civilization as we know it, its all downhill from here, maybe, maybe at some point roughly 75-100 years in the future, a much smaller human population than what presently exists will be able to pick up the pieces and begin some new kind of actual progress.
Or we Great Filter ourselves.
Or reality invents a magic mcguffin device like a compact, cheap to manufacture, over parity, safe for general use, nuclear fusion reactor, or something like that.
Tech progress costs money.
It is ultimately directed by those with money.
As things fall apart, don’t expect much revolutionary tech breakthroughs outside of applications toward surveillance, weaponry, and battlefield medicine.