I've oft alluded to a high school friend of mine who went Angry Futurist Tweeter like Bob before Tweeting was possible, and I keep going back to him because of his pathological identity to Bob when it comes to their establishing worldview. Meaning talking to him was probably pretty close to how talking with Bob himself would have gone.
It boils down to worship of "the future" as a concept, not an actual thing. To them, futurism is just religion under another name, as "future" to them is not next Tuesday, or 10/20/50 years from now, but the idea of eventual utopia for believers. (Futurists)
The future will bring them everything they want
It will exclude everything they dislike.
It will accomplish this in a manner that cannot be described yet despite being unable to lay out a 'road map" of how to bring it about, it's proponents know exactly who is bringing it and who is denying it
Those who prevented it's arrival will be severely punished
Asking for details, even in support of bringing this about, are met with angry and even caustic dismissal of "you just don't get it" because the Futurist themselves have no idea, but, cannot bring themselves to admit this, or rather don't see it as relevant. Same way a religious person cannot prove Heaven exists or accurately describe what it's like... but they sure as SHIT know that YOU don't qualify for entry unless you get on THEIR side.
So, when he'd (my friend) say something like "The Future will bring us Moon wheat!" and I'd respond "Growing crops on the Moon is possible, but prohibitively expensive, where will the money come from to give that to every single person on the planet? And what's wrong with just growing regular old wheat on the ground like we always have? What benefits would Moon wheat bring?" the response was "You don't GET it! I'm not wasting my time with this discussion anymore" It was because he couldn't' refute the claim that his future utopia was unobtainable due to financial realities, but instead of having to give up on the "Dream" he'd attack the person who "ruined" the fantasy.
Asking where the money will come from was flat out called an "excuse" by him.....
"It's 2005! We should have space stations and neural-vaults by now!"
"We have the ISS"
"YOU DON'T GET IT!"
"Well, what kind of space station were you talking about?"
"We should have space-hotels you can go to! And we could build them tomorrow!"
"Yes, but they'd cost a LOT of money"
"That's just an excuse!"
"Excuse for what?"
"Holding up progress"
"How is not having a space-Hilton holding up progress? What would it allow me to do better today at my job if it existed? If financial return, they'd build it."
"I'm not going to argue with you if you can't see what the problem is!"
This went on for years, any disagreement was "not getting it"
They fundamentally LIKE being disappointed by the lack of progress because to them it "proves" the proles of the world are holding them down. If their future where they'd prosper is being held up, then you can't fault them for current-day failure, can you?
They don't want solutions, they want to be angry.
