[camwiese]

Absolutely. Everyone wants to talk stagnation, but we don't realize how much incredible work is being done in the background. Then, because we live in filtered versions of reality, we don't see it. The Fair serves as a showcase of all of the incredible work being done to shape the future to 1) give people hope and 2) inspire more people to help build it.

[minikites]

It's not a "filtered" version of reality, the actual reality is getting worse for many people and the work you're talking about is orthogonal to the reality of declining wages, worsening health outcomes, infrastructure decline, etc. A fair isn't going to inspire hope to fix these things because these things require collective action, a concept that the USA thoroughly denigrates in favor of elevating the individual.

[the_only_law]

Now I just need to figure how to get in on all this incredible work.