'Star Trek: Discovery' - How This Show Still Running?
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I used to know plenty of people that were into TNG, DS9, etc.
I've never met a single person "in the wild" who watches Discovery. Literally, not a single person. I have met some who watched Picard, and the response is almost always "Well, it's so nice to see the gang back together again..."
Star Trek is dead at this point. What remains is unrecognizable to what we loved and largely indistinguishable from Star Wars.
Apparently Picard season 3 isn't complete shit. I'm still not watching it though.
Modern media is usually awful, and wears the name of the old like a skin suit. On top of that, the bar is so low that stuff that isn't complete shit (but still bad) seems good and people rave about it. Like I'm sure Picard season 3 is about a 5/10 at best but in comparison it's like a gold mine compared to season one and two.
It was around that time that all the normie right wingers in the "culture war" sphere on Youtube (like Nerdrotic, Critical Drinker, Az, and the like) started shilling for Picard season 3, that I unsubbed from all of them. Previously, they had been telling people to stay away from Picard, rightfully mocking it with how bad it had ruined star Trek, and pointed out what the writers, producers, and actors had been saying (the usual "fans are racists if they don't like our humiliation ritual slop"), and yet, they all turned on a dime, ready to support "currrent thing", because it injected all manner of "remember when..." and fan service, which they previously had lambasted in other shows which tried to do the same thing, manipulating people to try to bring fans back. Keep in mind, too, that these are the same morons who think we'll win the culture war "when the money runs out", and even though they admitted in their own reviews that the same people who created seasons 1 and 2 were still at the same company making season 3, they were still telling people to consume product.
I felt like I was taking crazy pills seeing them all contradict themselves. When I tried to voice this in the comments, I got dog piled and gaslit, from a community that used to pride itself on being "red pilled".
If grifters were a threat to the system, they wouldn't be allowed to speak. There are many people who've been permanently banned on YouTube for speaking the real damning truth. Any grifter whose income is reliant on the very system they supposedly deteste cannot possibly be an effective critic of it.
I honestly just wish anyone who dislikes the culture war would stop paying grifters any attention. This whole culture around people saying things on the internet and making money off of saying things is part of the whole problem.
The people I listed, I'm pretty sure, do know the verboten subjects. There were several occasions in their live streams where they broached into verboten but relevant topics, began to stray outside the curated boundaries, stopped themselves, and then changed the subject.
This means they should know that the ideas and solutions they're advocating are false. The biggest, is that they still advocate that what we're seeing is due to greed and incompetence. While those do play a part, they're in service to the true motivation, which is malice. Not only are their conversations sticking within the curated confines, their judgments are as well. I'd argue that a lot of red pills can still be dispensed even on censored platforms like Youtube. You can't talk about true causes to problems, but you can talk about all the ancillary effects of those problems, connect the dots, make sound judgments, and refute false information.
However, these grifters are sacrificing accurate discourse for money, truth for greed. Good people don't do that. It means they're untrustworthy. We have enough liars as it is.