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 While it's easy to fall into Utopian thinking when being involved in a "movement" (whatever that means anymore) of futurists like ours, it's important to remember that the "good ending" for the West in regards to what we can conceivably do is to return to the same order of the 1800s and before, where Europeans and their disaphora basically stuck to one another but hated each other for petty and ultimately pointless reasons. And fought equally pointless little skirmishes to prove whose better and put hair on the chests of the freshly adult men of their countries. Only with modern technology and medicine thrown in the mix.