Figure 10. Illustration in Puck showing the march of "Civilization." Simply imagining a world isn’t enough, we must imagine a better world by coming to terms with the failures of the past and the present. We have seen, and see all around us, the evils of the nineteenth century and if the fantasy worlds steampunks opt to inhabit cling too tightly to imagined “good old days” then we are destined to create not a better world, but a worse one. (Source)

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