Future-oriented discourse evades present political participation

Evidence

The ideology of the future can serve as a form of “false consciousness,” a deflection away from the substantial problems of the present, problems grounded in conflicts over wealth and status and the appropriate control of technology, toward a future in which these problems, by the very nature of the future, cannot exist. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 691 (#expands, via linked claim)

The subtext of the literature of the future, in its manifold forms, is the loss of an effective public sphere of real participation in what John Dewey called the conjoint life of the polity. The future, whether it appears in the rhetoric of the Left or Right, whether as postmodernism or postindustrialism, is one more device for evading the active and directive role our imaginings of the past and future play in the control of the present. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 765 (#expands, via linked claim)

Today, the future has lost its imaginary cast and simultaneously become part of the pastoral tradition; it plays in the same language game as the past, though in inverted form. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 755 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Technology-based future forecasting functions as ritualistic exorcism — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 671; Future-oriented discourse masks the loss of a genuine public sphere — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 765; Dialogic interactions create open, critical, constructive spaces for negotiating differing ideas toward consensus — ‘Dialogic scaffolding’: Enhancing learning and understanding in collaborative contexts (+9 more)

Related

• The future now plays the same rhetorical role the pastoral past once played (similarity 0.91)
• Future-oriented discourse masks the loss of a genuine public sphere (similarity 0.91)
• The more present antagonisms intensify, the more the future is invoked as false unity. (similarity 0.83)
• The future ideology deflects attention from present conflicts over wealth and technology. (similarity 0.83)
• Future literature mobilizes people toward predetermined ends (similarity 0.82)
• Past predictions have foreclosed genuinely open futures (similarity 0.81)
• Technology-based future forecasting functions as ritualistic exorcism (similarity 0.79)
• Futures are increasingly represented in the forms of the past. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The future ideology deflects attention from present conflicts over wealth and technology. #expands (0.95) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 691
• Future-oriented discourse masks the loss of a genuine public sphere #expands (0.85) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 765
• The future now plays the same rhetorical role the pastoral past once played #expands (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 755