I don’t think the movie Tomorrowland failed because the kids today are insufficiency optimistic about the future. I think it failed because it was trying to sell a terrible, Ayn-Randian vision of the future in which the fate of regular folks depends on the whims of an elite group of extraordinary individuals who have a plan to build a model utopian society to inspire the rest of us, and don’t believe that silly things like laws should apply to them. When the plan fails and the utopia they were trying to build goes to shit, the movie ends with them deciding to try the exact same plan again, rather than use their extraordinary resources to help improve the world that we actually live in.
