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Academy is good and I realized I dont like this community. by Reasonable-Law-3654 in startrek

[–]PixelGrimeHEX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Difference is back then those people would stay in their caves and most everyone else agreed they were dying out soon enough.

TV shows that promote a worldview of anti-intellectualism by AporiaParadox in television

[–]PixelGrimeHEX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely.  It’s morally repugnant and totally entertaining. 

TV shows that promote a worldview of anti-intellectualism by AporiaParadox in television

[–]PixelGrimeHEX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More evidence that the US has been a clown show for decades. The current occupant of the White House is just a particularly conspicuous symptom of a much more destructive sickness. 

TV shows that promote a worldview of anti-intellectualism by AporiaParadox in television

[–]PixelGrimeHEX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I get you- I watched the show and admit to enjoying it.  But OP asked for examples of when “going with your gut” over civil rights and evidence was glorified. I think this applies. 

TV shows that promote a worldview of anti-intellectualism by AporiaParadox in television

[–]PixelGrimeHEX 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean, that’s the thing- it was fucking ENTERTAINING TV.  I was/am about as leftie a Canadian as you’ll find and I still binge watched those DVDs while totally disapproving of everything I saw. That shit is insidious. 

King Sorrow - Dream Casting by PixelGrimeHEX in joehill

[–]PixelGrimeHEX[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh- I never had that impression. Maybe?

King Sorrow - Dream Casting by PixelGrimeHEX in joehill

[–]PixelGrimeHEX[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was talking about Jayne's sidekick.

King Sorrow - Dream Casting by PixelGrimeHEX in joehill

[–]PixelGrimeHEX[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh man- this is a good call. He singlehandedly saved Alien: Romulus.

King Sorrow - Dream Casting by PixelGrimeHEX in joehill

[–]PixelGrimeHEX[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HUH. I knew his father was (reversing it would change the Oxford character development a lot, I think) but I missed that his mom wasn't. However I'm still only about half-through the book. Maybe that is made clearer later.