5441 Why Is Sci-Fi Such Hot Garbage?
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Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 17 March 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Why is sci-fi such hot garbage such as Star Wars dune three-body problems star-track etc I've always loved the idea of the genre |
| 0:06.4 | But it rarely lives up to the hype |
| 0:09.4 | Artists are propagandists and therefore they're usually susceptible to propaganda. |
| 0:15.0 | Artists are very easy to program so that you can program others and artists don't |
| 0:19.3 | understand the free market. Artists don't understand the free market. |
| 0:25.0 | artists don't understand the free market. It's been a long time since somebody came from the free market or the remnants of it to the |
| 0:29.3 | art world. |
| 0:30.3 | Artists are generally in socialist artistic paradise situations or they require so much money that they have to surrender their integrity. |
| 0:40.0 | Now Star Wars isn't even science fiction. Star Wars is magic with robots. It's King Arthur with, I mean even half the characters are covered in metal, whether the C3PO or whatever right it's just it's just |
| 0:54.0 | Arthurian crap I mean it's got swords it's got magic it's got a princess stolen by an |
| 0:59.5 | evil warlord I mean it it is it is Star Wars is not. Star Wars is not science fiction. It's |
| 1:10.9 | just magic. Yeah it's just d D&D on a desert planet. I mean it's not I mean and so's |
| 1:17.7 | Dune right? Dune is the most hilarious non sequitur known to filmmaking. I mean it's ridiculously bad. The first dune. |
| 1:27.0 | Honestly it's like not only is it incredibly slow. I get it the desert is |
| 1:37.4 | the writer's depression and he was very depression he was so he was very depressed and the desert is just his depression right but this is a this is a, this is a, it's science fiction universe with |
| 1:48.0 | interstellar travel and when there's an, there's literally a rain of giant missiles that come down. |
| 2:00.0 | But people fight with swords. People fight with swords. |
| 2:05.0 | Oh my gosh. |
| 2:12.0 | Oh, my gosh. Oh, I, hey, I wrote my own science fiction book, right? |
| 2:15.0 | You can find it called the future, right? |
| 2:18.0 | You can, let me get it for you. |
| 2:20.0 | Let me get it for you. |
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