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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by perl4ever on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:45PM (#23989547)
I don't see the term "future oriented" as having any firm meaning in a vacuum, as a somehow absolute judgment; it's meaningful in a relative sense and that's how I used it.

After 9/11, most Americans became more future oriented than immediately before; both advocating for the invasion and addressing "root causes" in different ways are different forms of that. Either was more focused on the future than maintaining sanctions and occasional airstrikes.

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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by chriswarbo on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:34PM (#23990090)
> After 9/11, most Americans became more future oriented than immediately before

I really can't tell if you're trolling at this point.

Declaring war against an intangible form of political violence, as a knee-jerk reaction to a specific incident, which ends up perpetuating that form of violence, is a classic example of short-term thinking.

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