Socialism From The Stars
With its stalker-like connotations, admitting to an obsession is rarely fashionable or acceptable these days.
But can we not look past that and try to see the good? Let’s instead focus on the positive aspects of obsessive behavior, such as single-mindedness, tenacity and attention to detail. There we go, much better.
Nevertheless, personal realizations of obsessiveness can strike one at the strangest of times.
Such as when you’re (I’m) watching the new Star Trek movie.
Normally, I’d rather gouge out my own eyes than watch anything Star Trek-related. But this is different – J. J. Abrams directed it. And it was very entertaining. Never thought I’d write those words.
But I started to have some rather unwelcome thoughts when the villain revealed that he was a prole… and that his vessel was a mining ship… and that he was fighting against a powerful foreign empire… and that his weapon of choice to destroy other planets was a big-a*s drill. You see where I’m going?
More than anything else, this just tells me how I might be overdoing it slightly in my eagerness to attribute everything disagreeable to socialism.
Then again, maybe not.
May 12th, 2009 at 22:43
Star Trek, for all of its idealism, always had socialist elements. Replicator technology abolished currency (on Earth, but not necessarily all members of the Federation and certainly not non-Federation planets), in later series the least sympathetic bad guys were the Ferangi, who were basically charactures of “greedy capitalists”. A few years back someone wrote a post calling the Enterprise the tax collectors of the Federation.
May 12th, 2009 at 22:53
Toaster,
Thank you – I’ll take your word for it, seeing as I’d watched about 17 whole minutes of Star Trek before going to see the movie.
Still – entertaining flick!