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STAR TREK'S OPTIMISTIC FUTURE.
The New York Times review of the new Star Trek film contains this nugget:
Mr. Abrams doesn’t venture into politics as boldly as Mr. Roddenberry sometimes did, though it’s worth noting he does equate torture with barbarism.
It's "political" now, to say that torture is barbarism. At some point the low bar we've set for ourselves is going to hit us, very hard, in the face.
-- A. Serwer
COMMENTS (5)
You're right. I'd say the videos of American soldiers being tortured by an enemy according to practices laid out by the OLC ought to be the face-smack.
Except we're plenty hypocritical enough to execute whoever did that.
Posted by: JMG | May 7, 2009 5:11 PM
"...venture into politics as boldly as Mr. Roddenberry sometimes did..."
Triumphant recitation of the preamble to the Constitution? Why would anybody want to be so bold?
Posted by: Grumpy | May 7, 2009 9:06 PM
Yeah, but in The Omega Glory, the episode you reference, the Chicoms (to use a contemporaneous term) had won. That Rodenberry was a pinko!
Posted by: Marlowe | May 8, 2009 12:38 AM
How depressing. I almost can't even stand to read Glen Greenwald's blog any more - it's just morbid.
I have recently been engaged in a lengthy flamewar on my University alma mater website with a bunch of fellow grads.
The high prevalence of torture apologists and rationalizers there is really a source of sadness and confusion for me.
Obama (apparently) is a communist who hates America, and those of us who understand that torure is antithetical to all the hopes and ideals of this nation (not to mention being ineffective) are weak homosexuals.
It's just mind-boggling...
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