Journal Bill Dog's Journal: whopper of the week 4
"Star Trek wasn't political." -- William Shatner
Back in the real world, ST is one of the most political TV shows of all time. It embodies multi-culturalism, feminism, passivism, anti-capitalism, and environmentalism, as those just off the top of my head. TFMSNBCA uses the term "progressive", which I would only nitpick at in the capitalization of the first letter.
I enjoyed the original series, less so the later ones, and most of the movies, but let's face it, ST is a communist institution in America. Beside there being a whole movie devoted to the old Leftie "save the whales" thing, we had the Ferengi for goodness sakes, an alien race developed to portray how ugly private enterprise makes us!
But aside from Mr. Shatner's farcical statement, I had been rooting for The Donald for prez, but I'm warming to Ted Cruz after this. He's right about how how in TNG they split Kirk up (and I would say later brought them back together into one in Voyager; which reminds me, include Native American/primitive (i.e. non-successful, non-Christian, non-Western Culture) cultures worship in the list) into the ass-kicker (Riker) and the pussy (Shjon-Luke).
See, they even gave them kick-ass and pussy-sounding names, respectively. And of course the Republican had to be subordinate to the Democrat, as it should be in any good, forward-thinking society amiright.
p.s. As an added extra bonus to this JE, there's also the most metal item of the week.
Ted Cruz? (Score:1)
Oh yeah... Ted Cruz [transgender-net.de]!
Once you have replicators (Score:2)
Communism suddenly makes sense. Before you have replicators, well, not so much.....you need an end to scarcity to make communism work.
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I had to chew on this one for a little bit. When any of our "things" can be replaced with the press of a button, we'd probably adopt a cultural of (voluntarily) loose ownership. Where what we created for ourselves we would still say we own, but most of us would be willing to give away most kinds of things if someone asked. I wouldn't call that communism, I would call that one of the effects of a rising tide lifting all boats: an increasing generosity.
Now if you're talking about an abusive (i.e. controlli
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Here's how Communism would make sense in that instance: With replicators- true replicators- the only input to create physical goods of ANY type is energy.
Which means there are only two things any human being would need- time and energy. Everything else can be made on the spot.
Time, well, God is a socialist when it comes to time. We are each allocated exactly 24 hours a day, no more, no less. There is nothing we can do to change the length of a day by a single instant.
Centralized power production on a gr