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“Divine Right” on the Collapse of Star Trek
•�April 22, 2020
•�4,700 Words •�249 Comments • Reply
My take on modern Star Trek compared to the old: Star Trek very much embodied what liberal American white males of the 1980s and 1990s thought the future would (or should) look like: secular, sexually liberated, humanistic, meritocratic, equitable, and technological – a man’s world, basically. In this world, religion plays practically no role in... Read More
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The Wisdom of Jean-Luc Picard
•�April 13, 2020
•�1,700 Words •�164 Comments • Reply
The posters and trailers for today’s films and TV series generally look awful to me. I occasionally give them a chance, against my better judgment, and find I have wasted my time. All these pope dramas and even Emir Kusturica’s documentary with Uruguayan President Peje Mujica: meh.[1] So I look to the past. I’ve recently... Read More
The Donald Trump Phenomenon: Part 2: Binary Thinking
•�March 18, 2016
•�3,200 Words •�77 Comments • Reply
In the preceding part (The Donald Trump Phenomenon: Part 1: The American Nations), I talked about the geographic (and hence ethnic) variation in support for the various 2016 U.S. presidential candidates. In this part, I will focus on the turmoil in this particular election cycle, and what it means for our society and acceptance of... Read More
Resisting the Lure of Intervention
The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence
•�September 17, 2015
•�2,900 Words •�1 Comment • Reply
They were the “best and the brightest” but on a spaceship, not planet Earth, and they exemplified the liberal optimism of their era. The original Star Trek,whose three-year TV run began in 1966, featured a talented, multiethnic crew. The indomitable Captain Kirk had the can-do sex appeal of a Kennedy; his chief advisor, the half-human,... Read More
On Star Trek, African Americans were underrepresented among guest actors, who were just as likely to be part-Asian actresses like France Nuyen. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Imagining the Future, Imagining Death
•�June 6, 2015
•�1,600 Words •�128 Comments • Reply
Only six years separate the production of Logan's Run (1976) from that of Blade Runner (1982), yet those intervening years form a watershed in how science fiction imagined the future. The first movie depicts the year 2274. The setting is futuristic, and the people so beautiful that one significant detail may go unnoticed. Eventually, the... Read More
IQ and Death
•�May 2, 2013
•�2,300 Words •�42 Comments • Reply
In my previous post, I noted that the oft-mentioned association between obesity and poor health and "early" death may be a function of the lower average IQ of obese people. I suggested that the true correlate of these things was in fact low IQ. And indeed, I've stumbled on additional studies that suggests that this... Read More
Happy Halloween!
•�October 31, 2012
•�2 Comments • Reply
Ka'plah! Sorry, it doesn't come with a cloaking device:
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