1 Futurology is not social science, nor historical analysis, nor policy making, nor cultural criticism, nor philosophical thought.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 30, 20152 Futurology is a genre of marketing and promotion.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 30, 20153 Like all advertising, futurology is deception & consolation peddled as information in the service of wealth accumulation & concentration.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 30, 20154 Quintessentially neoliberal, futurology sells stasis as progress, exploitation as liberty, violence as virtual, conquest as development.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 30, 20155 The suffusion of personal and public life by the norms and forms of promotion and self-promotion is our prevalent religiosity now.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 30, 20156 Faithful advertising mobilizes irrational passions: Denial -- of aging and death, isolation, insecurity, error, life's contingency…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 30, 20157 …and wish-fulfillment fantasies -- of youthful health, sex appeal, easy money, relevance, and control.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 30, 20158 In Robot Cults like transhumanism, singularitarianism and immortalism the techno-transcendental religiosity of futurology is conspicuous.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 30, 20159 But techno-transcendentalism isn't confined to such extremities: it drives venture capitalism, consumer fetishism, advertorial journalism.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 30, 201510. Futurist sub(cult)ures merely expose the underlying and ubiquitous deception and derangement of the neoliberal-neoconservative epoch.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 30, 2015
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