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Why Are So Many Sci-Fi Films Left-Wing?
IBD's Capital Hill ^
| 1/11/2009
| Ed Carson
Posted on 01/11/2010 5:52:50 AM PST by Slyscribe
Avatar is wowing audiences with its groundbreaking 3-D technology (too bad the characters are one-dimensional). But in another way its ordinary: a science-fiction film that plays to leftist fantasies about capitalism and the military.
Yet many sci-fi fans are on the political right. So why are sci-fi films and TV shows typically liberal?
Hollywood films tend to be liberal, sure. But science fiction in particular lends itself to utopian visions that the worlds problems can be solved once and for all.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: avatar; blogpimp; sciencefiction; startrek; utopia
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To: Crolis
Star Fleet credits...they’re mentioned many places. You can’t have an economy without some form of money, it just doesn’t work. What about “dirty” jobs and grunt work, it all still exists in the ST universe...without currency there is no motivation to do this kind of work...”self betterment and improving the human race” doesn’t cut it.
I take it with replicator technology, commodities, food and shelter are taken care of but if you want the luxuries like Scotty’s retirement boat, you need credits.
To: TheVitaminPress
That would have been a great episode! I can see it now:
Commander LaForge: "Ensign...Why would you randomly reverse the ship's polarity?"
Ensign Everyman (blinks and thinks for a moment): "Well, Commander LaForge, if it were done regularly, the reversal would have to become a part of the maintenance procedures and schedule for every ship in the fleet. The optimal period for reversal would be different for every every class of ship. Every ship classand variantwould have to undergo a StarFleet Maintenance Procedures Review and a period of testing before they could do it at all. And that could take years!"
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01/13/2010 10:03:44 AM PST
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BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
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01/13/2010 5:46:08 PM PST
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TheVitaminPress
(as goes the Second Amendment . . . so goes the Constitution.)
To: LiberConservative
Firefly was libertarian but Joss Whedon does not seem to be. Similarly, J. Michael Straczynski, who wrote much of Babylon 5, is quite liberal and atheist but he could write excellent conservatives and religious people. That's the sign of a good author, that they write all people as three-dimensional rather than as straw men for their perspective to knock down. BSG turned into into the tale of the Golgafrincham from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy without Arthur and Ford. Science Ficiton author Larry Niven is also pretty conservative (see
this interview.
To: castlegreyskull
Waterworld- Capitalism destroys earth
The Postman- civil servant rebuilds society
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07/27/2011 10:05:58 PM PDT
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GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: BlueLancer
Guilds were very anti-competitive and raised the barrier to entry for any competitors. Very much akin to FDR’s National Recovery Act
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07/27/2011 10:08:49 PM PDT
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GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: markomalley
Since there's no scarcity in the Federation, can any citizen have his own Galaxy-class starship to play with? Might take a while to replicate the components
Nah, just need a much bigger replicator
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07/27/2011 10:15:18 PM PDT
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GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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