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Past Tense
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2024 · TV series · 1 season
Hind lives peacefully with her renowned doctor husband and two daughters, but her past of private parties threatens to resurface when her former partner reappears in her life…
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Something I find amazingly prescient here is Past Tense [1].
Past Tense is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9. It was filmed going on 25 years ago - in 1993. It told a story of increasing disparity eventually culminating in "Sanctuary Districts" starting in the early 2020s as a means of providing 'sanctuary' for the unemployed, mentally ill, and those otherwise unable to make it in society -- and the dystopia that followed. Everything down to the timeline and location (the story focused on San Francisco) is again just quite prescient.
It's just a story, but one to keep in mind when deciding how to try to deal with problems like this. The ideas of Sanctuary Cities are incredibly appealing, and it's for that reason that I think we're highly likely to play out this story to its natural conclusion. It offers no alternative, and it's entirely possible that there is none. But it's certainly a thought provoking episode tying together all the issues we're facing today, while considering how good intentions can go very wrong.
[1] - https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense/542280/?single_page=true (the episode itself is far more on point than this article - and is only provided for those who cannot access the episode)
What the WSJ is trying to do here, and what you're doing by carrying their water is incredibly insidious.
You can claim that there would have been a global communications infrastructure anyway, but that ignores the vitally important question of what assumptions that network would rely upon, and who would push its growth, and to what (or whose) ends.
There's a Deep Space Nine episode which touches on an alternative to the universe we live in where global communications terminals in 2024 are locked down and require a license to publish to (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Tense_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine) ). What stopped that from being our internet, instead of the internet we have now?
I certainly do not take for granted the government's role in shaping what our network looks like.