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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“Gatica” was not liberal either,
Captain Obvious suggests that you follow the production money.
It is actually currently in production rumored to have Angelina Jolie as Dagny. The newest rumor is that it will be a mini-series.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/
Science Fiction if the “Book of Revelations” of the secular society - just like Evolution is it’s “Book of Genesis.”
Triumph of the will over adversity (societal). Nice pull.
Star Trek TOS was not overtly liberal. That is mainly because the world of the Federation was never really defined or explained. However, in Star Trek TNG, the future is apparently a communist one in which people don't need money and are happy in their jobs and find recreation through virtual reality simulators.
Also, the OP said "so many" sci-fi films are liberal-not "all".
“Republicans are the blue people, living in harmony with their economic environment, attacked by powerful outsiders.”
YES.
The military represents the IRS and the precious ore is the last dollar that has not been taxed! The Blue people are blue because they are being choked of life by a far-left government.
Don’t ... patronize ... Hollywood.
Don’t ... enable ... liberals.
Why are some conservatives so dense that they need to be reminded of that?
In what way? I genuinely don’t see it.
Let me know, the topic interests me though I’ll have to check in tomorrow due to the time differences.
THE THING with Kurt Russell was not left-wing. My favorite scene is when he has them all tied up and is testing there blood. ACLU types must cringe watching these “enhanced interogation practices”.
I think ST was a pro Taliban movie because we did not get to see Denise Richards naked!!! ;)
You believe wrong. There are entire swathes of SF that are written for and by conservatives. Nearly EVERYTHING published by Baen Books, for example, has a conservative or pro-military bent.
Heck, George W. Bush even has minor speaking parts in several, including one where he’s talking to Jeb. . . (”Into the Looking Glass” by Ringo and Taylor. . .)
There’s even stories of a second American Revolution against a barely-disguised Hillary presidency (”A State of Disobedience” by Tom Kratman), and even one that takes on Political Correctness AND Global Warming (”The Last Centurion” by Ringo).
About the ONLY thing the Baen authors have screwed up on, is their expectation that Hillary would be President right now. . .
btt
I loved the recent version of BSG, but the New Caprica storyline with its "insurgents" and suicide bombings, made my eyes roll.
Republicans are the blue people, living in harmony with their economic environment, attacked by powerful outsiders.
That’s exactly how I saw it too! At the end when all the
blue people came - I saw that as the Tea Party-ers.
I was not referring to the prime directive, but to the communist lifestyle of those already within the Federation.
Artists tend to be feeling oriented people, which makes them liberals.
I'll put one to that. The late Keith Laumer wrote a sackful of books with a very conservative viewpoint. Not just conservative, but positively "Consciousness I", if I remember my Charles "Greening" Reich correctly.
And yes, I got my set from Baen.
Betchya Klingons are still capitalists, though.
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