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It’s almost as if we’re in something a lot like the Star Trek timeline. I’ve been watching through DS9 again, and a couple days ago got to Past Tense, which deals with the (in universe) 2024 Bell Riots in San Francisco. And it’s SUPER weird to watch, because the “sanctuary districts” (where the riots start) are basically just homeless encampments that they built walls around (so, ghettos). And the episode fairly pointedly also deals with wealth inequality, rampant late stage capitalism, the collapse of social safety nets, which overlaps with most of the serious societal issues we’re dealing with today IRL.
So yeah, hopefully deeper into the future everyone will be like “wow that sucked, glad we’re past that”. But I have a pretty strong suspicion that the next few decades are gonna absolutely suck to live through.
You’d like the Expanse. It’s mostly in space the first season, but deals with the inequality and walled cities in the second season. Mars becomes the economic center,has the better military, and Earth gets left behind. There’s also a one world government, scarily prescient. Always thought Jeff Sessions looked like Quark.
Oh 100% - I’ve read the books, and watched the series. Both are a ton of fun, and really interesting.
Amos is the best, btw :D
The books intimidated me
The show is great, but imo the books are better. There’s a lot more nuance, and the shows had to strip out a bunch of content to make it work in the visual medium. I heartily recommend that you read them, especially if you enjoyed the show!
9 books! That’s obviously a ploy by capitalist to keep me from discerning their diabolical plans.
There’s ways to get them on the float, to pachuye ke.
That took me a minute, I thought I had a stroke. Lol