We agree to disagree, but the idealistic frame leads to passivity.
To get what I mean this might help.
Hopium is not the same thing as hope. Hope is what people who are DOING SOMETHING have. Hopium is what people who are passive and don't DO ANYTHING have.
Hopium is internally generated to maintain a passive do nothing attitude. Hopium imagines the power of ideas will triumph in the real world because they have an independent existence.
The materialist knows that the only thing that matters is what we do.
The contrast is real. The idealist will tolerate injustice thinking karma will fix shit. IMHO, that attitude is full of shit.
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