#34 Renee S.: awesome pics, thanks for posting that! who doesn’t enjoy seeing a burning cop car every so often? So, i say, cut the obnoxious boys some slack. i think there’s room for all these tactics and historical precedence for them, and plenty of evidence that “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho” doesn’t really accomplish much except create really boring demonstrations. ![]() On the other hand, I’m sick of the “larger movement” giving these folks shit for taking real action. I do think you have a responsibility to the larger movement when you take action not to put others in danger if they didn’t sign on. and i’m sure young, stupid, macho white boys make dumb decisions. I’ve been reading controversies over whether the black bloc are infiltrated by cops setting them up and causing more violence, or whether these are legitimately chosen tactics. it’s doing the ‘system’s’ work for it and against us.” My comments: “yeah, but when young white, obnoxious, teenage boys actually target their anger at the real causes, at these massive power institutions, everyone gives them shit.” my friend’s comments: “it’s sad to see folks take their anger out on on their own communities. I had a discussion today with a therapist friend who works with poor women in Oakland, CA on the subject of rioting. (… goes back to petting the Tribbles … oh, they’re cats, how did that happen? …) Riffing off the New Yorker Internet cartoon, “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a Vulcan.” I haven’t actually seen Vulcans around here (and I can’t look at their ears to verify), but I suspect there are a few. “Infinite diversity in infinite combination” sounds a bit like the characters in DTWOF and on this blog. Sackett also noted that the Star Trek series’ principled “prime directive,” that humans should not influence or interfere with other races and peoples, was actually a snipe at American involvement in Vietnam, something that television network censors never picked up on. Roddenberry’s death, some of the Star Trek vehicles, particularly the television spin-off series “Deep Space Nine,” were permeated with religious themes, something the franchise creator would not have appreciated. Roddenberry, a voracious reader, was upset because many rabid fans began to view Star Trek as a religion and its central characters as saints. She said Star Trek was imbued with what she called the “IDIC Philosophy,” namely, infinite diversity in infinite combination. ![]() Sackett said Roddenberry was so resolute about religion that he refused suggestions to add a chaplain to the crew of the starship Enterprise. “Rationality was the key … There was no recourse to the supernatural,” she said. Roddenberry, who lectured in Worcester in the 1990s, strived in his Star Trek ventures to affirm the dignity of all people. “You usually don’t run across an archbishop of Alpha Centauri.” “A lot of science fiction is filled with humanism,” said Ms. ![]() Sackett said that Star Trek, like humanism, promoted ethics, social justice and reason, and rejected religious dogma and the supernatural. Can’t wait for the Phelpses to show up at the UU church with signs proclaiming “God Hates Star Trek.” Off-topic… Holy Captain Kirk! Star Trek is really a secret atheistic humanistic plot that snuck under the network censors’ radar to ply our impressionable youth with revolutionary ideas! And those pesky Unitarians are involved too.
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