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2026 : the year World War 3 begins
Published 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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To my Gen-X compatriots, to the Boomers and Millenials, and to Gen-Z who will have to clean up this mess we all made…
…can we agree that Star Trek is the future we would all like?
A future in which poverty is eradicated, disease is a mere curiosity of the past, humanity has put aside petty squabbles over resources, borders, and skin melanin and replaced all of that sh*t with a collective, enlightenment-driven pursuit of knowledge and self-betterment.
A future in which humanity has – to use the rigorous academic term – Grown The Fuck Up
Is Star Trek a future we can all agree on?
Let us tune out the ideological zealots, the Tankies and the Nazis, who treat our planetary collapse as a competitive team sport, and among the exhausted, fact-based majority, agree on Star Trek as our shared prize.
When we look at the USS Enterprise we do not just see a starship, we see a perfectly calibrated, post-scarcity society. It is the ultimate manifestation of what contemporary political theorists affectionately call FALC: Fully Automated Luxury Communism… in space.
Let’s place ourselves at the intersection of eschatology, speculative fiction, and macro-economics and ask a question of Star