Star trek doesn’t really have a working class though, they achieved Marx’s earlier hypothesised state of the deprecation of manual labor (in the technical sense). Interestingly, most of the philosophy is around how to get to Star Trek, where Star Trek itself is kind of the biggest thought experiment we have for what we would do once we’re there.
Marx later evolved to believe only a revolution would destroy capitalism, and that’s what Mao focused on, the getting there. Through violence.
Mao took that to heart, and succeeded, despite his best efforts, in ultimately setting the stage for a China that’s more capitalist than it’s ever been.
That’s kind of the magic of star trek. Theres a violent past, a billion deaths, and it isn’t a new political system or a different economy that changes everything, it was a newfound hope that things could be better if people were better, and they worked together to make that happen.
I think younger Marx would have loved Star Trek. I’m not sure about older Marx or Mao.
I’ve always interpreted that movie as the exact opposite. Here’s what happens if you replace natural selection with corporate interest. The guy who time traveled was not a genius in his time.
The title is a play on the TNG episode “The Inner Light”, where Picard is hit by a beam from a Kataan probe that makes him live out a lifetime of memories in the space of less than an hour. A similar probe last appeared in LD: “In the Cradle of Vexilon”....
I love DS9 (startrek.website)
Watch out, he's a pro. (startrek.website)
Join Starfleet. Fast reaction time not required! (media.giphy.com)
sometime i think the pace of DS9 is tooooo slow, but maybe its the valium
Space is 2D, right? (lemmy.world)
historical materialism moment (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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What's next? (lemmy.world)
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What devices run with free firmware? (lemmy.world)
You can run a free OS pretty effortless, but when wanting 100% free software, you have to dig deeper and replace the proprietary BIOS firmware.
Society (lemmy.world)
Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once (files.mastodon.social)
Ever wonder what else they ask the computer? (startrek.website)
Smh they made video games political (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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This is literally the internet nowadays without an adblock (discuss.tchncs.de)
I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable
Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x09: “The Inner Fight” (SPOILERS)
The title is a play on the TNG episode “The Inner Light”, where Picard is hit by a beam from a Kataan probe that makes him live out a lifetime of memories in the space of less than an hour. A similar probe last appeared in LD: “In the Cradle of Vexilon”....
It is simply logical, fellow rebels (startrek.website)
So, little sidenote, but this is my 400th post since joining on August 16th....
Sh*t Gold . (lemmy.world)
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