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Posts: 1,741
Join Date: May 2005
Location: , Wisconsin, USA
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14-02-08, 08:18 PM
Here is where I have a problem with this dude and probably the majority of people.
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The problem is not that Fed Religion is internally inconsistent, but that it is inconsistent with reality. NO human civilization has been able to erase the religious impulse from the minds of the majority of its people. NO human civilization has successfully combined lock-step totalitarian government with soft, fuzzy good feelings and compassion. NO human civilization has successfully combined excellence in all areas of human endeavor with collectivist, socialist economics and politics. I just can't believe it.
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One thing about Star Trek and most good science fiction is that it is FUTURE ORIENTED. Plenty of people have barely gotten their thinking beyond 1900. The 20th Century has given us a phase change in knowledge, technology and potentials and to make a comparison to any human civilization before 1900 is nonsense. Before 1900 we did not know the structure of the atom though the Greeks had thought about the concept. Before 1900 we did not know there were other galaxies. But this clown is going to talk about what NO civilization is going to do in the next 300 years. There can never be another FIRST MOON LANDING.
The reason we haven't made good use of the technology is that most people can't figure out what to do with it and the corporations just want to brainwash us into buying junk designed to fall apart. So what kind of society/culture we could really create with this technology is TOTALLY UNKNOWN.
Our nitwit economists can't even tell us what we have lost on depreciation of automobiles over the last 50 years so what sense does it make to speculate what a society with replicators would be like? I haven't bothered going to an auto show in 30 years because I don't give a damn what the cars look like since the laws of physics don't change and human beings don't change shape. So most of the changes in cars are just marketing bullshit like changing women's fashions. But how many people think like that?
CONSUMERISM IS THE MEANING OF LIFE
That was one thing nice about watching Star Trek. No placement ads in the program. At least until Tom Parris started building a Comaro on the holodeck.
Some people accuse Star Trek of being communist but no one asks what Karl Marx said about the effect of planned obsolescence on the Gross Domestic Product.
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Last edited by umbrarchist; 14-02-08 at 09:23 PM.
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