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Love that The Orville made this song into intergalactic rally music.
Edit: if you like your sanity just stop reading now.
Broadly, of course, the entire genre is no place for advancing class consciousness.
The cultural frame depicted within the overall genre, for example, as based on Star Trek following TNG, has been in many ways serving as an endorsement for the cultural ideals, especially for personal happiness and individual status, promulgated under neoliberalism.
I would wish for humanity passing beyond the current phase of culture in advanced countries, from the last several decades, of everyone constantly chasing the end of the rainbow, of seeking ever greater fulfillment from romantic partnership, and status from occupational advancement.
I don’t know if I would describe a post capital society as neoliberal, if anything it’s unironically anarcho-communist, with money only being introduced as a concept outside the federation. In addition, I would consider a depiction of an egalitarian, capital free society being one of the most advanced and humanitarian groups as a great vehicle for class consciousness.
Tho, I guess when a Tankie sees a society free from capital, they must think it neoliberal because they don’t have a fascist vanguardist party controlling all capital.
No part or facet of your response has any relation to the substance of my comment.
Then you should really read up on some earlier communist literature to try and understand why the phrase “endorsement of neoliberal social relationships” in relationship to Star Trek is just plain stupid in any social framework, especially a post liberal left understanding.
I would try to address a substantive contribution to discussion.
I will not deconstruct your Gish gallop, straw man attacks, quote mining, ad-hominem attacks or assumptions, or other poisoning of the well.
Perhaps read again, from beginning to end, and then try to engage my remarks on their merits and in good faith, instead of building your own narrative after anchoring to few particular words.
you make assumptions about the structure and reason for relationships and work, on the relationship front, your statement makes absolutely no sense due to the very real lack of relationship between your point and political ideologies.
On the work front, you quite literally ignore any and all left philosophical musings that are post liberalism, as many if not all argue that work IS needed for a fulfilling life, Marx for example, argued the optimization, monotony, and exploitativness of the modern workplace has led to the alienation of labor, and a free society should allow people to work in many different fields of interest for, (you guessed it) greater fulfillment.
and THEN you went and tried to box this whole thing into an argument about class consciousness via cultural framing, and this is as wrong as you can be, this is why I recommended you read some more of the earlier literature, because it goes into things like the philosophical thought behind all this stuff, along with the analysis of material conditions and so on.
Sorry, but you have again provided a Gish gallop unrelated to the substance of my comment.
First you ranted about anarchism, money, and vanguardism, and now about labor alienation.
I specifically criticized the normalization of particular cultural constructs, such serial monogamy and career trajectory, that have become dominant under neoliberalism.
Did I assert an expectation for money to remain in the distant future?
Did I suggest that no one seeks meaning from productive activity?
No and no.
Did I ever “describe a post capital society as neoliberal”?
Big fat fucking “No!”
It is not worthwhile for me to unpack any more deeply.
Perhaps you enjoy pontification and pedantry, but you seem uninterested in discussing or engaging in good faith.
Ah yes, they need to invent some form of future society no one has seen or invisioned yet. Only then can they make a televisions show worth watching.
There is validity and usefulness in criticizing how cultural ideals are promulgated through media.
The subject may not interest you, but such criticisms have been valid and useful. Their intention is not that they target the choices of those who created particular works, but rather to describe the social systems that function to protect prevailing cultural ideals within a period and locale.
To make the matter plain, you might notice how personal relationships and values changed as depicted in Star Trek TOS versus TNG, in tandem with the time periods when the series were created.
Again, though, the criticism is not strongly related to the idea that the creators need to invent some form of future society no one has seen or invisioned [sic] yet".
In fact, the future setting of the particular genre is incidental. Media often represents conditions following ideals more than facts.
I don’t watch Star Trek. I’ve had the sex.
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