The Decline of Star Trek Mirrors America's Decline
On Monday, our fellow ZeroHedge contributing editor TDB shared an interesting post by Ben Bartee about the differences between the original
Star Trek series from the 1960s and its successor that ran from the late 1980s to the early 1990s,
Star Trek: The Next Generation (The Message Embedded in Star Trek). Since our culture has become more atomized recently, readers may be unaware that there are new
Star Trek series currently streaming today, and that the cultural gap between them and
Star Trek: The Next Generation is much larger than the one between the original series and
Star Trek: The Next Generation.
There is an obvious political parallel here between the Democratic Party of the early 1990s and today. As Bartee pointed out in his post that TDB shared,
Star Trek: The Next Generation portrayed an ideal of liberalism. But like President Bill Clinton's policies at the time, it was very different from today's liberalism. Our political spectrum has shifted so far to the left that 1990s Bill Clinton is effectively right wing by today's standards: he opposed illegal immigration and gay marriage, for example, while today's mainstream Democratic Party now embraces transgenderism after successfully legalizing gay marriage, as well as an open borders policy.
Just as today's Democratic Party dislikes the founding population of America, today's Star Trek writers hate Star Trek's original fans. That may seem like an extreme statement, but the essay below gives plenty of examples to back it up. Before we get to it though, a brief follow up on a previous post.
