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Dionysian Futurism - Jeff Giesea

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Because the future should be worth living in

Dionysian Futurism Because the future should be worth living in Jeff Giesea Mar 24, 2026 76 20 23 Share Bacchus, by Caravaggio (1596) A few weeks ago, someone on X casually asked why every image of a techno-optimist future looks so sterile, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it. These visions feel engineered , not lived in. They look like CAD drawings for a master-planned civilization no one actually lives in, much less has sex in. Where’s the joy, the fun, the feasting, the romance? Where’s the life? Hell, where are the humans? At the time, I was reading Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition

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