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Episode 94: Star Trek Socialism feat Aaron Thorpe

Episode 94: Star Trek Socialism feat Aaron Thorpe

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 Damn, this was a fun chat! Today we have Aaron Thorpe from The Trillbillies with us! Aaron’s hanging out with us today to talk about two of my favorite things: Star Trek and socialism. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired We also have as an unofficial second guest, the spirit of Kurt Schiller from Podside Picnic and formerly of Blood Knife magazine. He wasn't on the show but we talked about him quite a few times during this episode. I keep asking myself, what is it about that show that keeps me coming back and watching episodes and seasons over and over again? At least one of the reasons is the social values. Over and over again you see characters acting out a way of viewing the world that is entirely different from any examples I see in my own life. Just before we recorded, Kurt serendipitously posted on Substack an infinitely more eloquent exposition of this idea. Kurt describes the characters of Star Trek: The Next Generation as: [W]eird, ethics-obsessed utopian naval officers with a very particular culture and outlook that's not our own. They don't act like us, talk like us, and for the most part they don't really think like us. In fact, many of the aliens they encounter resemble modern people much more than the Federation - this was also the case in the original series, and both series use the Federation characters to comment on modern day society by imbuing alien species with our modern attributes (petty squabbles, greed, various culture wars, etc) while the Federation characters observe and comment from a fundamentally different viewpoint. Read Kurt's entire post here: https://substack.com/@knifepoint/note/c-227691504 The values defined throughout the early Star Trek series aren't just coincidental to the economic structure of the Federation, they're essential to creating and maintaining it. You can't get to their post-currency, post-scarcity world with replicators alone. You need to want it first, the replicators come later. Find Aaron online and check him out on The Trillbillies https://x.com/afrocosmist https://x.com/thetrillbillies Find Kurt on Substack https://substack.com/@knifepoint https://x.com/PodsideP Follow Wetwired on social https://x.com/wetwiredpod Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired Our long promised merch is here!! Fly your crypto-leftist flag with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized. wetwired.printful.me/ Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY)
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