6. We All Live Under The Misguided Notion That Things In The Future Will Be Better
After the initial shock of arriving in the future wore off for Fry, he started to believe that his life could be better in the year 3000. But of course it isn't. Though his friends and family don't hate him like they did in the past, he's still a delivery boy, still a loser, and still terrible with women. But the idea that things will get better further on in time is something we all believe. "In five years time I'll have it all sorted" is a phrase we hear a lot - but will you? Who's to say five years time will be any different from now? Though progress can happen (and does), people trust in it too much - countries even promise wildly unrealistic things for the near future in terms of development or recovery (just look at the financial crisis). The future dwelling Fry is a walking parable of everyone's dissatisfaction with the now, one who lives in the future that he craved and then constantly proves himself wrong in terms of it being better than before.