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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • It has to be blatant because people miss the point regularly.

    I hadn’t thought about that, it makes me think then about whether the stories could remain as blatant but have more depth. For example the court episode didn’t have any story beyond ‘Society (and Admiral April) is hypocritical and and racist’ by demonstrating it through one person’s story, and at the end of the story nothing has changed. I’m watching Discovery now and it’s going for a similarly blatant racial and cultural purity is evil antagonist so far, but it feels like it’s setting it up to be the antagonists’ folly, which would be more of an interesting story.


  • Correct. How do you propose I live in the modern world without a phone that uses cobalt?

    There is a phrase that describes this situation: “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism”

    There is nothing I can do while living in the modern world without benefitting from exploitation or encouraging evil, that’s the point of the The Good Place quote I included.

    I’m already depressed about it, I don’t really want to be berated for it when there’s nothing I can do about it. I already buy all my clothes second hand, fight my phone and laptop for basic privacy rights, vote for the least evil politician I can, I don’t own a car.


  • Yes I get that, I simply find it doesn’t achieve that goal and that its attempts to do so are without subtlety and overly contemporary, I’m now watching Discovery and in S01E03 or so, Captain Lorca cites Elon Musk as a great innovator.

    The show is already dated and it’s only 5 years old, that’s a major downside.

    I think it’s primarily the shallow depth of the prejudice confrontation that causes the problem, I don’t remember any episodes so far which didn’t feel like primary school level metaphors for racism etc. A more tactful and/or deeper writer would perhaps cause me no issues