Academy of Sciences of Heroesland

Menti, your words are filled with sadness and despair, a desire to simply follow in the wake of more advanced nations.

Quite the contrary, I would gladly be a citizen of the Empire. One must simply understand that the foundation of any state's development lies in the mentality of the people who live there. How are you going to introduce androids into factories when incompetent managers prefer to hire Tajiks because it's much cheaper (and I'm not even mentioning the fact that this offends the Tajiks themselves, because people take advantage of the fact that they are willing to work for next to nothing and don't even think that they need to live)? How are you going to encourage people to engage in creative work when many can't even perform relatively simple, monotonous tasks because they're just too lazy? How can you develop science and technology in a country where people only think about their salaries, and as a result, the most respected professions are lawyers, managers, and bankers (I'm not saying that these professions are bad, but at the moment, the balance is disrupted; there are far too many of them, and this is detrimental to other, much more important areas), while people are reluctant to go into science and manufacturing? So, knowing all this, how can you blame me for being a little pessimistic? More precisely, if there is any optimism in me now, it's not in the progress of indicators, but in the progress of minds. That is, I enjoy seeing intelligent people, and for a moment, you realize that not all is lost (and then some idiot or egoist spoils the whole impression after a while).
In short, I'm saying that it's too early to build castles in the air, although working for the future is, of course, something that must be done.