Thinking a lot about something @kameronhurley.com said earlier about the need to build stories about what comes next. It feels like it's clarified why conservatism is so endemic in genre fiction circles. Not just 'tradition is all' either but the way anything new is preemptively shot down.
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(also the scathing quote from a Folding Ideas video – Doug Walker wants to be a filmmaker, he wants to make art, but he can't because he's a fundamentally incurious person who
What I found is an underground that gets suppressed.
I'll admit, I didn't care for the first season Klingons. I prejudged that bit & my opinion remains unchanged.
But the show was overall optimistic, diverse, and beautiful at its best. And sometimes maybe too grim. I loved it.
Nothing necessarily wrong with that, until you look at it as a symptom; when you realise that 'consumers' are so mentally weary, that they don't feel they have the energy to engage with or be challenged by new ideas that aren't easily digested