Rich or Mike or someone on RLM put it best, we don’t like in a time where hope and optimism seem possible. It’s so cynical and bleak now that we can’t even imagine a hopeful future of peace and diplomacy and science, it’s gotta have stupid stupid black ops operators doing ahit
Grabbing a comment I made 3 years ago, it still holds up pretty well
Imagining a better future is an inherently revolutionary endeavor. It’s step 1 of convincing society to revolt.
Roddenberry’s Star Trek, while problematic and sexist, was a vision of a better future for humanity. Our late capitalist overlords don’t like this. They love to make dystopian films about climate hellscapes, because it’s a form of manufacturing consent for the future they want. They want to make our society into a place where all we do is relive nostalgia for a past that never existed, rather than built a brighter future for humanity. Facebook Meta is following this path already, launching a few years after Ready Player One. That movie pretends it’s a dystopia, but what they really want you to think is “isn’t all this tech cool?” to prep you to consume more Facebook garbage.
Yeah doing something different like peaceful diplomacy? Nah we gotta have the 150 millionth CIA propaganda show with the same beats and plot points. Just slap star trek tint on it
Rich or Mike or someone on RLM put it best, we don’t like in a time where hope and optimism seem possible. It’s so cynical and bleak now that we can’t even imagine a hopeful future of peace and diplomacy and science, it’s gotta have stupid stupid black ops operators doing ahit
Grabbing a comment I made 3 years ago, it still holds up pretty well
Aka Mark Fisher’s capitalist realism.
Yeah doing something different like peaceful diplomacy? Nah we gotta have the 150 millionth CIA propaganda show with the same beats and plot points. Just slap star trek tint on it
The enterprise attempts a mission of peace and the CIA fucks up any attempts they make at a peaceful resolution
If this isn’t the result any talk about gritty realism that these showrunners like to talk about is moot