340 Fascism of the USA versus Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, and The Man in the High Castle
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The audio player is at the bottom of this webpage so scroll to the bottom to listen to the show.Concurrent news: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Working definitions: About Fascism: Websites that rate how our nation-states are doing: Website that evaluates your political biases https://www.politicalcompass.org Science Fiction and Fascism SciFi Thoughts Fascism Model The following table is a model […]
Concurrent news: Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis : https://x.com/mariashriver/status/2016618469740204114?s=61 https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Working definitions: With a framework of Retrospective, Contemporary, and Speculative, we can identify examples of works that portray fascism. Retrospective is science fiction that looks back at past fascist events, generally WW2. Contemporary is science fiction that was written to look at what’s happening in […]
157 Kardashev Scale, The big picture on space civilizations
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Here is a visual representation of the Kardashev scale and the amount of energy for each step: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#/media/File:Consommations_énergétiques_des_trois_types_de_l’échelle_de_Kardashev.svg] Why is there a scale? It’s hard to have an intelligent conversation about something if you don’t have a way to think critically about it. Classification schemes is one way of creating a frame of critical thinking. You […]
As a fan and author of science fiction, I take my genre seriously as a wine snob would choosing which red to drink with dinner. Knowing what science fiction is and isn’t helps guide my hand in the craft. While in China, I met up with film producer/director Hal Dace. He took a break from […]
