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Post by johnnypt on Oct 20, 2021 12:17:41 GMT -5
Strangely enough I almost feel more comfortable with a planet of the apes post apocalyptic future. As they say in Springfield: "I for one welcome our new simian overlords!"
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Post by kemp on Oct 21, 2021 16:31:14 GMT -5
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Post by kemp on Oct 21, 2021 16:33:20 GMT -5
Remember this late 70's series, Ark II, human civilization eventually falls into ruin due to pollution, but a few scientists try and rebuild again by travelling around in a six wheeled combination RV and mobile laboratory and helping the people they come across in the wastelands. My favourite character was the talking chimp Adam, talking apes seemed to be a very 70's thing, but maybe the real star of the series was the Ark II vehicle.
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Post by kemp on Oct 22, 2021 18:17:10 GMT -5
I was looking over the Conspiracy Theory series starring Jesse Ventura. Ran from 2009 to 2013. There was a bit of a controversy surrounding the series, the fact that even though most of the episodes have been rerun, the 'Police State' episode from 2010 was shown only once. It investigated allegations that various prison like facilities were built around the US and operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to be used during martial law for the internment of citizens who are deemed a threat to national security, and that the government was stockpiling thousands of plastic bins alleged to be used as coffins for mass burials. Here is the episode in full. Took some digging to find it. www.bitchute.com/video/0QMGatMkvcMy/There was also an interesting episode from season 1 where it discussed a depopulation plan involving a 'pandemic' and using vaccines to cull the population of the world. Here is an excerpt from it. www.bitchute.com/video/NC2aywYY3gA4/I don't subscribe to all of the above, and admittedly, the subject matter may be of a very confronting and controversial matter to some people, especially in the current climate so I will leave it for the viewers discretion to make their own conclusions.
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Post by kemp on Oct 22, 2021 18:22:04 GMT -5
I recently came across a source that claimed that the post apocalyptic morning cartoon of Thundarr the barbarian took some inspiration from the 1971 book titled Thundar ( with a missing R ), Man of Two Worlds by Stuart J Byrne published about ten years before the cartoon. The main characters sidekick is called Moog instead of Mok. fromthewastes11811.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/thundarr-or-should-it-be-thundar/Part of a synopsis from Amazon 'Michael Storm, a twentieth-century archaeologist, has stumbled upon a strange new world. Deep in the mountains of Peru, he crosses a gateway leading to a world of mutated monsters, tribal apemen, and wondrous futuristic technology.' www.amazon.com/Thundar-Man-Worlds-Authorized-Editon/dp/149375078X
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Post by kemp on Oct 24, 2021 8:25:49 GMT -5
Here is the official trailer to the V the Series remake from some ten years ago. The 'Visitors' claim to come in peace, and in exchange for a 'small amount' of Earth's resources claim that they will share advanced technological and medical knowledge. In the course of the series it is discovered by small group of people that the visitors are a reptilian humanoid species that have spent decades infiltrating human governments, businesses, and religious institutions, and are now in the final stages of their plan to take over the Earth by first causing world wide instability and ultimately destroying humanity. Notice in 0.24 where it states that the newly opened healing centres are drawing huge crowds, also when an objective journalist puts the hard questions to the 'visitors', they cancel the interview over concerns that the questions will portray them in a negative way, censorship. 'The New York Times wrote that "The ideas in V, about alien encounters and mass delusion and media manipulation, are enticing.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(2009_TV_series)The series was cancelled after two seasons.
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Post by kemp on Oct 24, 2021 8:32:45 GMT -5
Talking about reptiles, I recall going out to the movies to watch a move called 'Reign of Fire', about a medieval style post apocalyptic setting after awakened dragons leave their underground tunnels and go about destroying the surface world.
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Post by kemp on Oct 24, 2021 8:36:16 GMT -5
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Post by kemp on Nov 27, 2021 5:56:14 GMT -5
There are those that advocate so called transhumanist technologies that they believe would augment or increase human sensory reception, emotive ability, or cognitive capacity as well as radically improve human health and extend human life spans.
It is not just loose talk. Klaus Schwab, executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum has talked about a fourth industrial revolution that will lead to a fusion of the physical, digital and biological.
It raises the question on what it means to be human.
In the movie 'Blade Runner 49' bioengineered humans known as replicants are used as slaves, seen as less than humans, and are often referred to as 'skinjobs'.
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Post by kemp on Nov 27, 2021 6:01:59 GMT -5
However, lets turn this around, what about a future in which humans become the oppressed minority.
Using reality as a springboard, at the moment experimental mRNA based treatments have been admistered to the majority of the adult populations in the western world. There are some that view the technology with suspicion with the belief that the messenger RNA injections that teach cells to make proteins to trigger an immune response are actually taking the place of the natural immune system, that those who have taken them are now GMO's ( genetically modified organisms), patents, not human, and you have the radicals out there that I do not want to mention who subscribe to some of these views.
In the spirit of this thread let us say that we may be seeing the emergence of a new type of society in which the former human species is becoming divided on a genetic level, that is, between those who still consider themselves human and those that are genetically modified, friendships and families are being splintered, jobs lost and a seperation in society emerging including segregating or excluding those who have not taken the treatments.
Gattaca from 1997, is a movie with genetic discrimination as the theme. In this film, the future is one in which genetic makeup determines social status.
As a result, parents favor “genetic selection” procedures over natural childbirth. Depending on what traits people inherit, society classifies them as either “valid” or “in-valid.” The “valids” enter high-paying professions, while the “in-valids” are condemned to low-paying jobs.
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Post by kemp on Nov 27, 2021 6:07:11 GMT -5
Of course, genetic modification, or changing the natural course of the human genetic code may be closer to themes that deal with genetic enhancement rather than gnetic selection. Khan Noonien Singh, one of the most known villains in the Star Trek universe, is noted in his first appearance (Episode 22 “Space Seed”) as a remnant of 20th century selective breeding that aimed to create the 'perfect human'. The result was that the genetically altered conquered more than one third of the globe and became warlords launching a globe-wide eugenic war. Though only the plot for the first appearance of Khan in season 1 of Star Trek, the battles between Khan and Kirk explore the fear that genetically engineered humans will overpower the rest of normal humans that are left unaltered. Khan was so popular they brought him back of course. Did the Eugenics war, first hinted in the Season 1 Star Trek episode, lay the world to waste !?!
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Post by kemp on Nov 27, 2021 6:37:04 GMT -5
.......or any attempt at human genetic augmentation may create nothing more than some sick Frankenstien's monster.
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Post by bonesaw on Dec 2, 2021 12:08:56 GMT -5
Loved Thundarr and still watch the DVDs with my own kids. When I watch it now, I notice how cool the backgrounds were depicting historical monuments that I didn't care about as a kid. I always thought it would make for a cool boardgame or card game where there would be three factions- Savagery, Sorcery and Super-Science, maybe with a rock, paper, scissors mechanic.
I wonder how that book is...might have to check it out.
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Post by kemp on Dec 6, 2021 2:02:04 GMT -5
I'm sure there's tons of cool shit that you can do with a Thundarr the barbarian post apocalypse setting.
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Post by kemp on Dec 6, 2021 2:09:16 GMT -5
Prejudice in a dystopian future setting Years ago, read an issue of The New Mutants, issue 49 to be precise, where the team end up in a future New York in which mutants occupy the upper echelons of society and in which humans live in downtown, a slum relegated to the disenfranchised human population, although there are a small group of mutants that fight for the rights of humans. It is a future in which mutants are oppressing humans. www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2013/11/x-amining-new-mutants-49.htmlIt might not be all that far fetched that in the near future we might find ourselves in a world divided between those have been left behind and chosen to remain human and those who have opted for genetic/technological modification for a number of reasons.
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