So it remains an allegory for the existential threat posed by a particular political system, but not the failed experiments of last century's Europe, the very one that it celebrates and supports with open hands.
"The leading diplomatic forum is a tool for a shadow government to spread pseudoscience so that their totalitarian actions appear to have an environmentalist motive, silencing anyone that corrects it or investigates the harmful and ineffective retroviral vaccines that have been pushed on the population. Those that have not taken the latter yet are forced to wear masks as a sign of submission." That's how the entitled readership read that last part, exactly as the author wanted I believe. How dare the planet populated entirely by PTSD victims make anything less than absolute concession to the egos of the master race.
"To make the population more accepting of the totalitarian measures used to enforce this, they also have provoked the rise of a far right death cult while making the barest token efforts to defeat it. In the same vein, knowledge of violence between ordinary citizens has been repressed to conserve the narrative that people are fundamentally good except when they fit into the prior categories of an enemy. Also, digital currencies are a giant security hole that will kill us all."
He had 184 chapters and two years to write something else. It's so weird. I know how it happened by
accident but I can't imagine the kind of person that doesn't course correct for that accident. Never have I found any sign that the author doesn't have typical reddit opinions but there has to be something inside of the Floridian water that he was drinking.
I am writing a 35K character diatribe about how one of the heads of the fictional UN behaved so erratically that he
had to be in league with the Federation. It's at the point where he is almost my favorite character in the story by principle of love-to-hate. And I'm just doing it because he was alleged to have "
dedicated himself to virtue and the pursuit of peace to the last" by the internal monologue of one BPD sheepwoman with canonically no knowledge of ethics or philosophy whom was there to watch him kill billions of alien civvies for a mind game that didn't work, and I have a severe disability that keeps me from understanding that real paragons of virtue randomly do bitch-plaque pure evil things. Sorry, 'are Human too'.
But when you use a reskinned great reset conspiracy as the guiding antagonist of the story, how can the mouthpiece of globalism
not be in on that nonsense? How can I believe that Pascap
didn't chicken out on some story arc about the fundamental insidiousness of the wish for a united mankind?
On the topic of a more familiar Federation, my pawpaw always told me that he interpreted the Borg as a future version of them. Because they're both collectivist techno-utopias*, see. If one side, designated as the good, and the other, designated as the bad, are symbols of the same thing, they have to be intimately connected.
*All dystopias are utopias, they are thought experiments in the world that is ideal for a certain kind of person. That you're meant or able to like this person is irrelevant.