I feel like Star Trek is just a small symptom. Modern society is simply not fit for manliness. Comfort is everywhere and devours ambition. True achievements are hard to come by or feel random and unearned. Everything seems new and changed, even though it's only superficial. The more you fit yourself to ancient and basic ideals of manliness, they better off you often are. I think I speak for most average / normal people when I say that exercising, building muscles and being careful of your diet on purpose - all suck. It's much easier to live healthily when you have to do manual labor and ensure your own food supply and that is still a meaningful and (comparatively) luxurious and good life. When a healthy, muscly body and good diet are just side-outcomes of your job and you still earn enough to live better than your parents - that's almost a dream for many men today. You are more alone and isolated than ever. You don't have a nation, you don't have a religion, you don't have an ideology, you don't have a family, you don't have a wife and you don't have children. What is there to believe in and put faith in (and not just religious faith, but who or what gives any man the hope that tomorrow will be better)? There is nothing you can throw yourself behind. The only thing you can do is live in a complex, global web of gears which try evermore to make you fail. The question isn't "Why is the world so crazy" the question is, "How can you not be insane?" It's just a systemic problem. Ronald Reagan made the joke that the Soviet Union collapsed because of the spread of the car. When you have a tool that allows you so much freedom - to just sit down and drive however far you want to go - that's something you just can't stop. And just like the car definitely played a part in making Russians want more freedom and hope, so does everything I said before about society and how it works systematically influence us. Of course that will be expressed in media as well. So don't blame Star Trek - blame EVERYTHING :) The only things we have are our mental health and whatever you worked for and can keep from the rest of us. The rest will probably get screwed down the line.
I feel like Star Trek is just a small symptom. Modern society is simply not fit for manliness. Comfort is everywhere and devours ambition. True achievements are hard to come by or feel random and unearned. Everything seems new and changed, even though it's only superficial. The more you fit yourself to ancient and basic ideals of manliness, they better off you often are. I think I speak for most average / normal people when I say that exercising, building muscles and being careful of your diet on purpose - all suck. It's much easier to live healthily when you have to do manual labor and ensure your own food supply and that is still a meaningful and (comparatively) luxurious and good life. When a healthy, muscly body and good diet are just side-outcomes of your job and you still earn enough to live better than your parents - that's almost a dream for many men today. You are more alone and isolated than ever. You don't have a nation, you don't have a religion, you don't have an ideology, you don't have a family, you don't have a wife and you don't have children. What is there to believe in and put faith in (and not just religious faith, but who or what gives any man the hope that tomorrow will be better)? There is nothing you can throw yourself behind. The only thing you can do is live in a complex, global web of gears which try evermore to make you fail. The question isn't "Why is the world so crazy" the question is, "How can you not be insane?" It's just a systemic problem. Ronald Reagan made the joke that the Soviet Union collapsed because of the spread of the car. When you have a tool that allows you so much freedom - to just sit down and drive however far you want to go - that's something you just can't stop. And just like the car definitely played a part in making Russians want more freedom and hope, so does everything I said before about society and how it works systematically influence us. Of course that will be expressed in media as well. So don't blame Star Trek - blame EVERYTHING :) The only things we have are our mental health and whatever you worked for and can keep from the rest of us. The rest will probably get screwed down the line.