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- BelatedHero, on 11/08/2008, -0/+51Dugg for Gillian Anderson pic.
- fiatjustitia, on 11/09/2008, -1/+30Long post ahead, here's the TL;DR:
TV got dumb when bush was elected. during the 90's, ***** was better, made us think, and was all around more entertaining. Obama is likely to bring back that 90's groove we so desperately need right now.
@ my fellow 90's kids
Do you remember a day when you woke up saturday morning, and you'd *literally* jump out of your bed to watch Iron Man/Re-boot/Exo-squad or any other assorted shows that I can't remember off the top off my head right now? And later that night after a day of galavanting or doing the homework you put off until the weekend, you'd watch Roundhouse, Doug, All that, Pete and Pete, Salute your shorts, or Bill Nye the Science guy?
Then you get just a little older, maybe 12-15, and start watching Star Trek (either TNG or DSN), Babylon 5, Earth: Final Conflict, Sliders, Blade Runner (yes, there was a short lived Blade Runner tv show), McGuyver, Highlander, and of course, without fail, the X-files.
Then Bush gets voted into office, and something unthinkable happens to our collective consciousness and to our culture.
Look what happened to TV since 2000- take a moment and really think about it. Television got dumber, and we all know it.
The President has a profound effect on our culture. In fact, when Kennedy was murdered (God rest his soul), psychologists at the time determined that children underwent the same strain and emotional upset as they would if their own father had been killed instead. Having a man, who was born into priviledge, was never truly intelligent or honestly good at anything he did, and could never exactly figure his own life out or what he honestly wanted to do with it, and essentially defined presidential abuse of power did a lot of damage to this nation's psyche. Many people assumed that they could never make it in life because you *had* to be priviledged to begin with, which was the case with Bush Jr.
Science fiction makes us dream. It makes us challenge and question the world around us. These ideas and ideals were the antithesis to the Bush Administration and their neo-con agenda. It's not just the political change we Obama supporters talk about- it's about culture change. Returning America to an imaginitive, anything-goes kind of place, which is really what being American is all about. And to be fair, I think McCain could have done the same thing had he chosen to surround himself with better people, but ultimately he didn't.
Sorry for such a long post, but this subject is something that's been on my mind lately. - vat0r, on 11/08/2008, -7/+29As a "Socialist" I'm extremely excited to see how technology can be used to take money from the wealthy and transfer it directly to me. /s
- Paulorific, on 11/09/2008, -4/+26You're ***** 15 years old, shut the ***** up.
- chooter, on 11/08/2008, -1/+22Bring the great Sci-Fi on!!!
I'm excited. Looking forward to having something to look forward to. Does that even make sense?
Oh, and an X-files fan in the White House = awesome. Finally, someone I can relate to! - SuperSunny, on 11/09/2008, -0/+19Post-Apocalyptic
- Paulorific, on 11/09/2008, -0/+13I hope so. The future is ***** awesome.
- algaeturd, on 11/09/2008, -3/+16Maybe you could use all that extra time on your hands to go back and get your high school degree. You know, after you realize what socialism really is you won't have to be illogically afraid that Obama is a socialist anymore.
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+12i would take that ***** over the last 8 years with bush. A president that gets blown in the oval office is better then one which just blows everything up.
- Farmer77, on 11/09/2008, -0/+12I'm still waiting for the Hover Boards. That is when I know we are in the future!
- mhmandthen, on 11/09/2008, -2/+14It's people like Narut0 that make me ashamed to be 15.
Not all of us are idiots. - inactive, on 11/09/2008, -5/+16***** everyone who talks ***** about Clinton. All he ever did was bomb an aspirin factory and take a blow job. Even when he messed with Saddam, he knew well enough not to go to Baghdad.
Can you imagine what a ***** massacre Baghdad would have been if we had done it during an age when we have even less technology sophisticated weaponry? Granted it's only a few years, but it makes a ***** difference.
Under Clinton we had a stable economy, bright future and a budget surplus.
The man was an economic genius, he deserved no hounding by the bastard Republicans. ***** you Republicans, ***** you hard. Hypocritical country destroying dip *****. - Farik, on 11/09/2008, -0/+11Bring on the Singularity!
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -1/+11Yeah especially job creation, and peace.
- Paulorific, on 11/09/2008, -2/+12Obama has some socialistic aspects. To be honest, not enough.
- tinkafoo, on 11/09/2008, -0/+9And what did we have under a Republican administration? Two genres:
-- Action movies : Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Cloverfield, James Bond, Lord of the Rings.
-- Then an oil movie : There Will Be Blood. - RAGEdemon, on 11/09/2008, -0/+9A little jealous, aren't we?
We won. You got raped - badly. Get over it :D - TremorX, on 11/09/2008, -0/+8What, the Empire Strikes Back?
- boogieordie, on 11/09/2008, -0/+8***** man, just bring back the X-Files. We can pretend the seasons during the Bush administration never happened.
- PabloMac, on 11/09/2008, -1/+9Feel free to stop by and try to take some of mine.
- SleepParalysis, on 11/09/2008, -0/+8Cyberpunk is neither shiny nor sunny. It's about a very dark, very high-tech future with daily evolving technology that is just around the corner. Where megacorporations can essentially run your life.
I'm not sure how the Clinton era was supposed to have created or pushed forth Cyberpunk... by that logic I could say that Reagan is the one who started Cyberpunk. The rest of the stuff mentioned is just sci-fi.
Dumb article but cyberpunk ftw with post-apocalyptia a close 2nd. - pintomp3, on 11/09/2008, -2/+9he'll support socialism if universal health care covers pimple cream.
- veled, on 11/09/2008, -0/+7Finally, a non-political political article.
though it's hard to say how much of this is cyclical trending... correlation =/= causation, after all. - inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+7Is your name Senator Larry Craig?
Blow on soldier blow on. - DifferentAngle, on 11/09/2008, -0/+7You'll need to explain this one...
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+6Dugg for mentioning Reboot, Sliders and X-Files
Best ***** TV on the planet. Thanks to Bush, all we have is Fox & Fags, NBC Pilots and ***** Fox Shows - fiatjustitia, on 11/09/2008, -2/+8When you graduate from high school and apply for government aid to go to college, will that make you a socialist?
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+6Cyberpunk was more popular during the '80s, especially during the Reagan era.
The Clinton era was more the era of post-cyberpunk than anything. Snow Crash was written the year before Clinton took office, and cyberpunk mostly dried up in favor of post-cyberpunk from there. - swik, on 11/09/2008, -0/+5Empire Strikes Back...Blade Runner...Terminator...I'm going to stop there because there are just too many and those three alone blow things out of the water.
- CrushThemTorg, on 11/09/2008, -0/+5While you're straddling the line of implying a link between correlation and causality, I like what you're doin' there.
- Genecalypse, on 11/09/2008, -2/+7wow youre a ***** dumbass lol
- pintomp3, on 11/09/2008, -2/+7the transfer has been going the other way for 30 years.
- jimb0, on 11/09/2008, -1/+6Great Article.
- fiatjustitia, on 11/09/2008, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_administratio ...
scroll down to the "economy" part, and read it, 4 times. - algaeturd, on 11/09/2008, -2/+7Their entire campaign and platform were just plain fiction. I think lies fall under the classification of 'fiction,' right?
- dalectrics, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4I don't think the sarcasm was necessary to be honest.
- depro9, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4Bring back the techtronic vibes! Peace love unity hope.
- EricJ2190, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4Just because it happened during the same period as the Clinton administration doesn't mean that Clinton had anything to do with it. After all, the Web 2.0 evolution happened during George W. Bush's presidency. Does that mean Bush is responsible for Web 2.0?
- veled, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4Oh, and I also have to ask: so if Democrats bring on great Science Fiction, what sort of fiction do Republicans trigger?
- BuryBrigade08, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4Learn logic, diggtards: correlation does not equal causation.
- fiatjustitia, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4Clinton had his share of *****-ups, but all in all, he was a good President. This country enjoyed unsurpassed economic growth under this "tax and spend liberal".
No president will ever be perfect, but the Clinton bashing I see here is kinda dumb. - Swivelstick, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4But you wont have time as you'll be working too hard now get off digg and get back in the mine,
- Swivelstick, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4You just described the Bush years very concisely, thank you :)
- GeyserShitdick, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4what the ***** is this article talking about
- MadOgre, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3The problem with Cyber Punk is that there is so little of it that is actually good.
- swik, on 11/09/2008, -5/+8Reagan's presidency had the best Sci-Fi
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3V
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3The ironic thing is that Clinton was more conservative than Bush...
- graeh, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3Your worth as a human being is that you make even extremely ignorant people appear sensible by comparison.
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -1/+4In the Clinton era, both the economy and sci-fi were carried along by the internet boom. Clinton himself and his policies had absolutely nothing to do with either. There is no similar boom on the horizon now, so...
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