people will literally pick the one in the bottom even though it’ll be a shit life.
why?
just because it looks cool.
Looks cool and .0000001% chance of being the water baron
Sure, people sometimes look at the past from the perspective of privileged classes. Ancient Rome or Middle Ages were anything but glorious for poor folks. We should stop romanticizing them.
Well it’s the ruling class that writes history. It’s not just ancient past, very recent past as well - just think of all the nostalgia cropping up for 1950’s or 1980’s!
There is no nostalgia for 50s and 80s in public discourse in my country, which basically confirms your point - it were socialist times, which the current rulling class hates. Media screetch thay we “defeated communism and won our freedom”, many young people think that whatever happens is million times better than horrible 50s and 80s. But I can imagine what you mean.
Apologies, I should have specified yankee media - since that is what dominates the world media. But also on the topic of flinging crap at the socialist times - we get that as well in Russia. Not just in media, as you mentioned - the term “Sovok” is used as a derogatory for things people dislike and (usually erroneously) associate with USSR. Ya know, such obviously socialist concepts as bureaucracy, employers monitoring every move a worker makes and punishing them for time off, unpaid overtime, etc
It doesn’t even look that cool, it’s just a bunch of over the top rusted crap
I dunno, Star Trek always struck me as a bit of a liberal fantasy, Next Generation especially. (Though I will say that giving the Klingons a flag deliberately reminiscent of Nazi Germany and then making them allies of the Federation was actually pretty prescient, given current events).
liberal fantasy
In what sense?
Long, possibly controversial reply above
Danke schön
Being a liberal accustomed to sucking up to capitalist imperial war lords, it’s in my nature to choose the below one.
But after lurking this long on grad, being called out every now and then, I think I should be considerate about the first one too.
We all start somewhere, and considering a broader range of ideas is key to having a better understanding of how things work. Glad to hear that people helped you get a new perspective here. :)
