Now it *looks like.
It really feels like a game of forced perspective, in a very literal sense. I think it was prior to Edwin Hubble that we thought certain fuzzy blobs in the sky were nebulae, until the type 1a supernova discovery tweaked our angle of view, the fuzzy blobs turned out to be distant galaxies in their own right, and suddenly the whole damn universe got deeper.
Space is a jerk. It's my favorite. MOAR secrets, pls
Authoritarianism is basically apolitical. I've read it boiled down to state/regime monopoly over industry, how you get there, left or right, is almost just a detail once you're there.
21 years since Morrowind
🫠
Without a doubt ADHD monster makes a mosquito buzzing sound
Authoritarianism is a helluva drug. Almost like it's apolitical or something.
Sorry, I'm still watching the opening sequence of motion picture, I'll let you know what I think when it's done.
/snark
But for real, I feel like the last season of Picard was finally a chance to see the TNG TV characters in action in a TNG movie.
Given the psychological effect of owning a gun, or having access to one has on a person, I honestly feel like we're in the same mental health territory as any behavioral antagonist, like leaving an addictive substance around an addict. You take a gun and put everything it means in a person's hands - the power, the mythology, the kind of baggage it comes with in this country - and it's gonna have some kind of effect.
I don't know about you, but I've witnessed, and am aware of many cases where drivers of certain kinds of cars - big, fast, whatever - do stupid, reckless, dangerous, even murderous things because of the feeling of power and control their vehicle gives them. It's the psychology of the damn things that makes people crazy.
We have a phrase for it, oddly enough: "it's like leaving a loaded gun on the table"
It's funny, I had to reread op's comment a couple times before I realized (I think) that they aren't making the usual argument against voting - I'm so conditioned to expect it because the usual centrist/progressive discourse is black and whited to "vote" vs "don't vote." We get it from the media, bad actors, wishy-washy liberal-liberals, and... (Sigh) leftists who don't know any better.
"Vote, and" should be the message - vote and organize, vote and run for office, whatever. To your point, we need to at least keep a thumb on the gushing artery if we plan to survive.
Ugh, there's that doom ulcer again
He's so good. Too good - reading Blood Meridian was like having my face dragged across fresh gravel, but in a good way, somehow?
I read it as a post apocalyptic story, but I think mcarthy described it as a near future, non specific "ecological catastrophe," which retrospectively recolored the story for me - tipped it from "The Walking Dead, except people" to "cautionary/exploratory speculative fiction on human survival in the face of collapse," for me
Basically, why we can't have nice things.