As they explore the Universe - they discover strange new worlds that embody philosophical allegories & the crew - who are also essentialized fragments of the psyche respond accordingly. Star Trek is a TV show about a military exploration space ship & its crew - boldly going where no one has gone before.
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The world is full of different ways of living & there is no reason to think that the future would be any different. In reality - Star Trek & Mad Max coexist - just as Seattle's glistening Amazon towers & bio spheres & Nigeria's rag-tag gangs of post-apocalyptic pirates coexist. It can be comforting or discomforting to paint the future with such a broad brush - depending on how you'd like to see things - but the world isn't defined by broad brush strokes or ideology - so these phenomena are primarily in our heads. It isn't the way the world works - ever - it is primarily a mentality which can lead to a methodology. The idea is simple - when you portray the future as ONE THING - this is an intentional limiting of possibilities, a limiting of ideas & a narrowing of opportunity - this is totalitarian. In the latest issue of PORK magazine I wrote about the totalitarian tendencies of Progressivism & Futurist Projection. As a fan of both series & a social libertarian the comparison fell flat.
One of the memes bouncing around before the 2016 USA Presidential Election featured a scene from Mad Max - Road Warrior with full on post-apocalyptic combat labelled "Libertarian Society" contrasted with a picture of the serenity of outer space & one of the Star Trek military space ships flying through the vacuum labelled "Socialist Society".
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