This is part of the ideology of progress whose facile prejudice is that the future is preferable to the past.
But he ran the country's biggest city well, and his vision of the future is preferable by far to Mr Prabowo's version of the past.
The nation's political imagination seems to have been captured recently by the notion that there are "new ideas," and an as yet unspecified "politics of the future," vastly preferable to the musty politics of the past.
But to say that it was the precursor of Disneyland is to diminish it, for the early Disneyland offered a cozy make-believe past, while the fair gave us a spacious, gleaming make-believe future, far preferable to most Americans, who saw their recent past as something to surmount, not celebrate.
It is important to distinguish between probable futures, i.e. futures that we will be most likely dealing with, and preferable futures, i.e. futures that we wish the most to come about.
Modality aspect of futures research: possible, probable and preferable futures are not to be mixed up.
In experiments, the probable futures began to appear alongside the preferable futures.
According to Inayatullah futures research is involved in the exploration of "possible, probable and preferable futures and of the worldview and myths that underlie each future" [25, p. 1].
But their prospects, current and future, are far preferable to those of non-graduates on average.
Ikea furniture with a clear purpose and not much of a future can seem preferable to waxing and polishing hand-me-downs that may not fit our modern ways as well.
