My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated...
I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and...
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case it is usually at the expense of others. In other words it is the opposite of idealism.
