Join us in this comprehensive YouTube video as we delve deeply into the Star Trek universe to reveal the dystopian underbelly of the United Federation of Planets.
This is why Star Trek is at best Space Opera, and why Starship Troopers is a much more realistic take on how to sustain an extra-terrestrial empire: Strict meritocracy, with promotion dependent on selection by your immediate peer group, based on who they think is most likely to keep you alive in battle.
There has never really been a robust "left" in America. It's been rabid Capitalism all-day-every-day from the get and it's only getting worse with AI. The closest to a moderate middle was after WW2 in the 1950s when high corporate taxes and (light) socialist policies created a large middle class.
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This is why Star Trek is at best Space Opera, and why Starship Troopers is a much more realistic take on how to sustain an extra-terrestrial empire: Strict meritocracy, with promotion dependent on selection by your immediate peer group, based on who they think is most likely to keep you alive in battle.
Hear hear!
There has never really been a robust "left" in America. It's been rabid Capitalism all-day-every-day from the get and it's only getting worse with AI. The closest to a moderate middle was after WW2 in the 1950s when high corporate taxes and (light) socialist policies created a large middle class.