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Don't we have that already? Star Wars has always been the story of authoritarian governments, hasn't it? A lot of the aesthetics looked like they are meant to

Don't we have that already? Star Wars has always been the story of authoritarian governments, hasn't it? A lot of the aesthetics looked like they are meant to portray the Nazis, but the empire lacks (to my knowledge, I'm not really into it) the "we must exterminate the undesirables" part and feels much closer like an authoritarian power that branches out and suppresses dissent, classical empire stuff, but without the crazy. That sounds about right for the CCP.

OpossumMinister 6y ago
A science-fantasy story like Star Wars is about as far away from speculative scifi like Neuromancer and Blade Runner as you can get.
Lio 6y ago
Star Wars is fantasy. It lacks the bite of hard speculative fiction. To quote William Gibson “the future is already here it’s just not well diffused yet”. So what will our world really look like if we extrapolate from now? I’ll bet it’s less neon and flying cars and more boarded up retail shops and government sponsored troll farms. The CCP isn’t building this navy for fun. Does anything China’s done recently make you think they lack ambition? Just look at the extent of their fishing operations. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/chinese-fishing-vessels-galapagos-islands https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/chinese-...
- luckylion 6y ago
  > I’ll bet it’s less neon and flying cars and more boarded up retail shops and government sponsored troll farms. No technological advancement? Has the CCP indicated that they'd prefer a stand still on that front? I'm sure the future will be different as is expected when a large power claims its place. Whether the losses will be in the West or primarily in the Third World will be a major question. So far, the Chinese seem not too much into large scale empire building, but primarily exercising control over "their backyard", similar to Russia in Ukraine etc and the US in Latin America. But that might change, of course, if they ever become the most powerful nation with a similar margin over the rest as the US has enjoyed for the last decades.

OpossumMinister 6y ago

A science-fantasy story like Star Wars is about as far away from speculative scifi like Neuromancer and Blade Runner as you can get.

Lio 6y ago

Star Wars is fantasy. It lacks the bite of hard speculative fiction. To quote William Gibson “the future is already here it’s just not well diffused yet”. So what will our world really look like if we extrapolate from now? I’ll bet it’s less neon and flying cars and more boarded up retail shops and government sponsored troll farms. The CCP isn’t building this navy for fun. Does anything China’s done recently make you think they lack ambition? Just look at the extent of their fishing operations. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/chinese-fishing-vessels-galapagos-islands https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/chinese-...

luckylion 6y ago
> I’ll bet it’s less neon and flying cars and more boarded up retail shops and government sponsored troll farms. No technological advancement? Has the CCP indicated that they'd prefer a stand still on that front? I'm sure the future will be different as is expected when a large power claims its place. Whether the losses will be in the West or primarily in the Third World will be a major question. So far, the Chinese seem not too much into large scale empire building, but primarily exercising control over "their backyard", similar to Russia in Ukraine etc and the US in Latin America. But that might change, of course, if they ever become the most powerful nation with a similar margin over the rest as the US has enjoyed for the last decades.