• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Tbf even Gene Roddenberry had given up hope on the idea of a future humanity where we have overcome these basic issues. By the end of his life he knew that the human race he portrayed in TOS was unrealistic, and that humans in a thousand years would be exactly like they are now, and how they were a thousand years ago. Same ape brain.

    • ZephrC@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Trust me, I am all too familiar with losing hope in humanity as I get older and more cynical. That doesn’t mean I want to spend my time watching a show about torture and misery and sadness and hopelessness. I want something better out of fiction than I get out of real life. Otherwise, what’s even the point?