I watch Demolition Man for the first time the other night. I always heard people say it predicts our current time and I definitely see that. The fines for profanity were funny, but hate speech laws are worse than that. Also the banning of meat and and salt
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The whole politically correct, not allowed to swear, sexless soy people thing was accurate, but the mythological noble poor is straight out of the leftist playbook. Also, depicts a future where there is no crime and everything is clean. In reality, crime is rising, infrastructure is crumbling, and we are overrun with third world dirtversity.
Back in the 90s there was still a cultural residue left behind by Star Trek, this idea that the future would be a time of unlimited progress and that a technological utopia was on the way. That had largely dissipated by the 2000s, that's when all science fiction became gritty and grimdark.
That’s a great point because I can’t think of the last thing set in the future that was positive
The Orville. I can't think of anything else since Star Trek: Enterprise.
And even ST:ENT was all like "Hey, we're shiny-eyed youngsters going out into the big ol' world for the first time, absolutely certain we'll make friends everywhere, because we're super-nice! The Vulcans said something about not everyone is like them, but hey, it's us!" .... [several episodes later] "Why does everyone shoot at us?"
They started out with bugger all for weapons, and had to argue for better weapons and shielding .... right up until the Xindi cut a nice trench in North America.
True. That show feels more like Trek than actual current trek.
Orville 2nd season as good but 3 pushed way too hard into feminism and troonery.
That's certainly a big part of it. Declining IQ is another big part.
That is true. I’ve known some good hearted poor people or people down on their luck but you are right. That is a nauseating trope that every poor person is poor due to no fault of their own.
Same reason(s) Greta and Hogg were appointed as notable; strategically promoting feelings over facts. When the root cause of a calamity also benefits your cohort, you better have a shield to distract the dutiful citizenry. Those who are bad at negotiating and general social awareness are both essential for many peoples' fortunes, and the root cause of preventable collective misery. Pull some strings, make it taboo to insult the poors (but only the non-threatening kind, fuck dem rednecks) , while your at it, paint some inconvenient policies and virtues as anti-poor; divide-and-conquer.
So do your part, and blame some victims today!