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The Seasteading institute / Bioshock are quite recent alternative communities. 1960s libertarians were just anti-Stalinist. The borg are definitely interesting
by vtempest 13y ago
The Seasteading institute / Bioshock are quite recent alternative communities. 1960s libertarians were just anti-Stalinist.
The borg are definitely interesting, but they're portrayed as some machine like force. I mean why can't the crew of the Enterprise communicate with telepathic brain chips? Better way to transfer information.
- mhd 13y agoBioshock is basically a parody of Rand, and didn't Atlas Shrugged come out in the late 50s? Heinleins more political works are early 60s, too. Honestly, TV/movie sci-fi really never was that good and only rarely picked up the more philosophical themes. Rarely surpassing pulp. And quite often it's just another genre in a sci-fi shell (fantasy, horror, crime). (Never mind a more literal interpretation of my previous post...)
- gte910h 13y agoMovies a pretty horrible places to get philosophy across: Dry diatribes and overmuch dialog at times. E. G. the man from earth, etc
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Movies a pretty horrible places to get philosophy across: Dry diatribes and overmuch dialog at times. Movies are a horrible medium for describing philosophy. Their a great medium for demonstrating the ideas of a philosophy. People who don't know how to make movies make movies with dry diatribes and overmuch dialog, whether the focus is philosophy or, well, anything else. But that's not a problem with the intersection of philosophy and film, that's a problem with the intersection of film and people who don't know how to make films.
- vtempest 13y agowhat's wrong with The man from earth? It's by the same authors as star trek. Seems like it was engaging intellectually to describe that unique idea of immortality
- gte910h 13y agoWhile I enjoyed the movie, it was just a bunch of people sitting around talking. This was too much for many people to get over.