Originally posted by AndrewG+April 02, 2007 04:29 pm--> (AndrewG @ April 02, 2007 04:29 pm)
@March 30, 2007 01:27 pm
Favorite Television Shows/Movies: Star Trek, Ghost in the Shell
Fascinating, as a certain someone would say. I always thought communists ought to really like Star Trek - especially TNG, in which people (edit: should have specified Earthicans) clearly seem to be living under some kind of communist government.
I’m gonna quote Captain Picard: “You see, money doesn’t exist in the Twenty-Fourth Century. The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives; we work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.”
We never see Picard, or anyone else, reviewing his investment portfolio. Those who still have a lowly interest in buying and selling, like the Ferengi, are not only essentially thieves, but ultimately only accept payment in precious commodities. Profit simply cannot be mentioned without a sneer. The champions of profit, the Ferengi perceive no difference between honest business, piracy, and swindle. At the same time, one can find little in the way of acknowledgement of the role of religion in life. Although exotic extraterrestrials, like the Klingons and Bajorans, have quaint religious beliefs and practices, absolutely nothing seems to be left of the historic religions of Earth: there are no Jews, no Christians, no Muslims, no Buddhists, no Hindus, no Jains, no Confucians, and no Sikhs, or anything else. With no practitioners, there are no chaplains for the crew—no ministers, no priests, no rabbis, no mullas, no brahmins, no monks, no nuns.
A Communist’s dream. [/b]
