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Also the inciting incident to the 'verse of Firefly:

Mal: "Here's how it is: (The) Earth got used up, so we (moved out, and) terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with new technologies, some not so much. (The) Central Planets, them as formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity.

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Solid read. Thanks

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I actually really liked the premise behind that one, the idea that collectively since we flooded our entertainment with cynical grimdark media, we all just accepted that ill use of technology leading to an apocalypse was an inevitability, and apathy let it happen.

It was an interesting message that I would've liked to see in a different vehicle.

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I guess I should just be nice to people who want me dead.

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You gotta take a "Do no harm, but take no shit." attitude and walk a fine line: Speak softly, carry a big stick.

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Naa, they can get fucked. I'm not gonna try to smooth talk them. Have some self-respect.

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Maybe some climate change disaster movies are a good idea to make actually

Plus, disaster movies are fun

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Joan is a great writer! I'm glad to see a fellow lemming linking her work here.

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What was that one where the world was destroyed by climate change, but instead of burning everything froze? IIRC, the main character was played by John Cusack.

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The Day After Tomorrow? I loved that one

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I tried to watch that movie. But I quit it 15 minutes in.

What was even the point? It wasn't funny, it wasn't enjoyable, it wasn't dramatic.

It's like "look, here is a blatantly obvious metaphor on climate change" that's our whole movie.

It seemed aimed for a very particular subset of people that wanted to feel a pat on the head or something. I feel like it's the same people who enjoy that big ass climate change doom clock.

Just too much virtue signalling for my taste. Without actually making anything useful.

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Who can forget the scene where they literally ran away from cold.

What a movie

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Your comment is now an extension of that movie’s plot.

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One of the reasons I love Spec Ops: The Line. It’s marketed to the correct crowd. The exact type of person that needs to understand killing your way through a situation rarely works is the one who will see the cover and think “Aw cool, a shooting game about killing your way through an adventure”.

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I agree that the mocking approach doesn’t work in terms of enacting change. I’m still in favor of it for our own sakes just because it’s fun.

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We haven’t gotten dumb enough. The buttfuckers restaurants are still right around the corner.

Once AI lets us get too dumb to read we’ll be closer than ever.

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We are NOT in a fully-automated sex-positive polygamous future with leadership that acknowledges society’s problems and places its best and brightest towards a solution

In fairness, neither were they. A bunch of the "automated" aspects of society were simply systems nobody knew how to operate that were left on autopilot. The administrators rose through the ranks by being Yes-Men and insisting broken systems were operating as intended. Spraying your crops with gatorade is only an "automation" in the most literal sense. It isn't how a "fully-automated" society is intended to operate.

Further, the whole jail system plus subsequent courtroom drama illustrated the dogmatic resistance to change and zero-tolerance for risks inherent in any change, resulting in a highly sclerotic society. It was only able to change when faced with a sudden catastrophic food crisis.

one where free speech is so alive you can even name your restaurant “Buttfuckers” and no one’s even slightly offended, one where even the least educated people in our society can get good quality high-paying jobs in everything from the arts to medical, one where sex work is no longer demonized and is considered so valid a profession that you can get your ass rimmed at Starbucks while waiting for your coffee.

Hyper-commoditization and exploitation of labor isn't liberation, its slavery. What you're describing is a cultural shift, not a relaxation of bigotry (which - again, referencing the courtroom scene - was in full abundance) or absence of elitism (characters regularly derided one another's intelligence while deferring to the violence of authority figures) or a flattening of incomes (the intro scenes of the future were full of poverty, kept in check by a murderous police force).

And I don’t understand why people think we have it anywhere near that good.

The show was a cartoonish reflection of modern day. It wasn't intended to suggest we have it better or worse, but to parody how things were in the present.

Even the depiction of the present illustrated huge social failures - institutional corruption, political inertia, misappropriation of resources, the false choice between careerism and hedonism - that metastasized over the intervening era into comically exaggerated state.

But people fixate on the first five minutes. And they really fixate on the idea of eugenics implicit in those first five minutes. This is precisely because the same set of smug, elitist, know-nothing oligarchs reflected in the movie are consuming it and taking away the most backwards and regressive messages.

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It's a movie, it doesn't need to be "useful". Some people were entertained, some people were emotionally affected. It was successful art. And we're still talking about it.

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I'm just giving my opinion on why that movie is bad.