Response to the Futurist Manifesto

The Futurist Manifesto is a rather interesting read to me. It almost reminds me of one of my close friends in a sense because the author comes off as intensely dedicated to a plan that was hatched just hours ago. While its message of grasping and focusing on the now is one that I agree with, it doesn't seem that it was really much thought put into it on a philosophical level and the author comes off as angry or bitter about a particular thing that has taken place, almost like he is going through an early mid-life crisis or maybe failed a class.

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