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i think one thing people miss is that counter culture movements sometimes win people over in the worst ways and they get really extreme ideas, or really extreme people get spun up in them and become little evil vorticies of power and influence. The sixties spawned the civil rights movement, peace movement. It also created the Manson family. There's a sort of yin and yang to these things IMO, creation and destruction. It's like a period of high energy and change and that can get used in many creative and destructive ways.

Some people see today as terrible and think socialism will fix it. Others, fascism. Two people agree that current leaders are failing, but for different reasons. And when everyone is demanding change, you can get some dangerous people to pop out of the wood work.

People like Musk and Thiel grow up in free thinking environments and in counter culture meccas and are a direct result of that energy. They dont run counter to it. They are a product of it.

So mike zuckerberg read 'snow crash'

Fucking Mike

Bruh, being a conservative is all about missing the fucking point.

I've noticed the same in recent years with Star Trek and the far right as well.

I don't know how they can possibly miss that the Federation is functionally a post-scarcity socialist utopia.

On the other hand... the Ferengi are essentially a direct replica of the modern US, including the far right's clear motive to try and force women back to subservience. I'm sure they'd love to be able to force them to be naked all the time while they're at it.

It's obvious many of the species in the ST universe were extreme caricatures of specific regions/countries from real life, and the Ferengi were based on the US... But I don't think they expected the caricature to so directly become the reality.

You go in expecting a book, but instead it’s just the Wikipedia page for Middle Earth

when reading The Silmarillion, it's important to remember that Finrod, the brother of Galadriel, is different from Fingon. Fingon is Finrod's cousin, and also the brother of Turgon. Fingon and Turgon's father is Fingolfin, who is the brother of Finarfin, who is Finrod's father. you'll have a hard time following the story if you don't keep all those straight

Doofenschmirz Evil Incorporated 🎵

Soylent is a real company now, so theres at least one evil corpo doing this.

I mean palantir is pretty fucking close. While technically it's neutral in-lore and only used for evil in the story. We see it as an evil object used by the bad guys and that's the association it has.

My friend's brother, but please leave him alone.

Ah yes, the 'does nothing because they're not relevant' resistance.

The other usually is "The Foundation in the classic sci-fi novel «Don't Build The Torment Nexus» did not see the importance of a «humanity first» approach, and cut corners for profit", then they immediately cut corners for profit.

Maybe we can be next to each other on the watchlist.