[Liberal Classic]

To me the story felt like the human colonies many hundreds of years in the future since the original show. Now Caprica is no longer a colony but heavily populated plantet, a whole civilization spanning several planets.

It's as if the cylon war was many years ago, much more than just 40. There would still be almost half the population who could remember that the cylons infiltrated computers during the attack. If the humans won, it would be a while before this lesson was forgotten, I believe much more than 40 years. Instead in my impression it feels more like 200 years since the last war. No one is alive who would have direct experience with the cylons. So much time has gone by that people would be getting lazy, wanting more computer automation, with no voices to the contrary save that in books and tapes. I don't think the Baltar presented could exist within the living memory of men after the first cylon war. He would be run out of town on a rail, so to speak. I believe it would take more time before people would listen to positive advocacy of computer automation.

As for the rest, it could work in this setting. The antiquated battleship, the new systems all interconnected. No experience with the machines, etc.

[mhking]

It's as if the cylon war was many years ago, much more than just 40.

I have to disagree. Take a look at the mess we've got here and now. The sheer numbers of people who have forgotten 9/11.

Oh, they remember the day, but they've conveniently forgotten the sheer horror; the raw pain and the lessons we should have learned from that day. And we're only two years removed.

Imagine what it'll look and sound like in another 35 years.

This is no different. The people; sheep if you will, have forgotten the horrors of war. For the most part, they've forgotten that they were almost wiped out. They've become oblivious to the danger ahead.

There are many in America today who are wearing those same rose-colored glasses.

The parallels are indeed eerie.

[Ichneumon]

It's as if the cylon war was many years ago, much more than just 40. There would still be almost half the population who could remember that the cylons infiltrated computers during the attack.

The Vietnam was was "only" 30 years ago. But to most people it feels like ancient history (and in a sense it is). How many people today still take to heart the lessons of the Vietnam war?

[null and void]

I don't think the Baltar presented could exist within the living memory of men after the first cylon war.

Yet some are willing to elect any of the nine dwarfs right now...