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Star Trek should be required viewing for all world leaders.
That sounds like it would be a good idea, but there is a strange but significant cadre of right-wing Star Trek fans. I think they just pay attention to the pew pew space battles and ignore everything else or something.
I honestly see why. While I love star trek, it has a very strong power structure "with the right people in power", as if power itself wouldn't corrupt people. The admirals may not always be right in the beginning but they accept their wrongs and have no bad intentions and the heroes are always celebrated by the establishment.
This can be understood as "this is the perfect world where even authorities are good" or as "I told you, authorities are the good guys". I, as a left libertarian, prefer Farscape (and still watch every star trek show)
Exactly! The TOS/TNG era are "benevolent authoritarianism" and conservatives, of course, see themselves as the good guys. "If things only went our way, our society would be perfect, just like Star Trek!"
I think Edington said it best. Paraphrasing, "[The Federation] are even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious you assimilate people I think they don't even know."
I, as a left libertarian, would probably end up in the Maquis
What''s left liberterian even means?
Anarchist or anarchist adjacent
They're the OG libertarians. The right explicitly stole the term and celebrated doing so.
In short, they're a branch of anarchism.
So neo liberal economic is just a right wing spinoff of libertarianism?
I wouldn't call it a spinoff but rather a ripoff. There might be few parallels but basically left Libertarians are against all hierarchies, including the state. Right Libertarian are against the state and want to build state like structures but privatized.
What''s left liberterian even means?
I never thought of it that way, but you do have a point. I still think it's more pew pew than anything else though.
Steve Shives (I hope I got the spelling correct) made a video why conservatives like star trek and a part of it is they see it as stories of other worlds and by doing so ignore all the allegorical implications. "A planet where people have the false gender assigned to them at birth? How truly alien!"
And to be fair: escapism is a legitimate goal of scifi and media in general. You watch scifi to enter a different world, for at least an hour a week be free of all your problems in the here and now.
Even worse, I've run into fans who think the Terrans had the right idea.
Considering the Terran Empire ended up being conquered, this tracks with them idolizing other losers, like Nazis and the Confederacy.
Khan-accerationists?
I can't help bit notice all these "debate me" chuds talk exactly like Gene Roddenberry's writting style. Why does every conversation or discussion devlove into "the logic of your argument" "you misunderstood the logic of what i am saying".
IMO conservatives are either Klingons, Ferengi, or deluded enough to think they'd be chosen to join the Q Continuum. And Libertarians think they're Romulans or Cardassians but aren't actually that organized or clever.
Sure, but I still genuinely believe the Gospel of Picard would have a net positive effect. Far moreso than the bible, which a good portion already have read.
That type of person will arrive at the conclusion "see, it's okay to do eugenics and have nuclear wars, since humanity will turn out okay anyways".