DS9 does so much right. It is certainly on point in its treatment of moral gray.
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Sci-fi all the way.
Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) shows the fall of an empire (loosely, America) at the hands of their AI creations. I guess Rome or Britain could also sit in for America. This show aired while Bush the lesser was taking Afghanistan and Iraq apart piece by piece.
The Expanse (2015-2022) is the worthy heir to the throne of casting harsh light on the oligarchs and hegemons. Belters could be any people put upon by this corrupt system: migrant workers, Indigenous people, refugees, the unhoused, the descendants of the enslaved — anyone who was expected to bootstrap success.
Both are good shows. The Expanse is proving to be somewhat more resilient to the passage of time.
I've always blamed marketing.
For those who don't know: Over the last 80 years, public relations, marketing, and ad agencies have spent trillions of dollars using Freudian psychology to engineer humans to believe three things:
youth is desirable — aging is death
sex is satisfaction — denial is death
success satisfies desires — failure is death
This is why youthful, feminine humans are used to sell products. They appeal to women who are conditioned into supportive roles and appearing desirable and men who are conditioned into seeking satisfaction and conquest of the desirable. A youthful, sexualized image yields success. Sex sells.
The person you can thank for this is named Edward Bernays. He is the father of public relations as an industry and wrote the book "Propaganda" in — get this — 1928.
Reengineering us to believe that a mid-40s single, black, mother of three who works two jobs and volunteers in the community on Sunday into the most desirable human image and we would have an entirely different world.
This world is based on the Paris Hilton sex tape.