CircuitGuy
@CircuitGuy@lemmy.world
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 3 weeks ago:
This is one of the first claims I remember reading about Star Trek on BBSs linked by FidoNet. It’s funny how it hasn’t changed.
- Comment on Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek: It has lessons for today's techno-optimists 4 weeks ago:
On the other side of this, there is the Deep Space Nine episode In the Cards. Nog, a Ferengi, helps Jake do work in exchange for things that people want. Then take some risks, buying stuff they don’t know if they can sell, and end up makings some trades that gets people what they want, so Jake can get what he wants. In the end there’s a montage showing everyone ends up happier.
So people did work freely. People paid them freely. They took a risk with some of their gains to buy things they hoped might meet someone else’s needs, with the hope of making mutually beneficial change. In the end, people served one another freely, not based on guilt or coercion, and everyone ended up with more of what they wanted. That’s a world most people want to live in.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The horror of the Soviet Union are will soon pass beyond living memory too.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It feels like the Nazis are passing beyond living memory so there are few people alive who remember how bad they were.
- Comment on What’s with Sci-Fi and Commemorative Plates? 5 weeks ago:
I remember seeing a commemorative plate in a Star Trek magazine in the 80s, when I was kid. I asked my parents to buy me one. They asked what I wanted with a Star Trek plate. That was a good point. I still don’t know what I would have done with a commemorative plate.