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- Why do you think they invaded back then?
- Why does any advanced civilization seeks to destroy a less advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all - simply because they can.
Babylon 5 is a prophetic sci-fi series.
There is everything: cultural differences, problems with aliens (= foreigners and emigrants), odd national customs, typical 'american' style of solving international problems, neo-nazi Psi Corps organization...even a moment of alternative dystopian future where the heroic station crew changed the camp and became nazi-like murderers of alien races themselves.
And in a couple of episodes there is an excellent example of 'journalism' made state propaganda - filming everyday life with all its ups and downs, and in the same time telling a story that people have to see to support the agenda of the corrupted government.
I'm astonished that people who created this series and were supposed to watch them in the first place has fallen into all these traps.
While Russian propaganda learned the lesson very well.
I'm re-watching the series to keep me out of despair. And to be able to stand between the candle and the star.
- Why does any advanced civilization seeks to destroy a less advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all - simply because they can.
Babylon 5 is a prophetic sci-fi series.
There is everything: cultural differences, problems with aliens (= foreigners and emigrants), odd national customs, typical 'american' style of solving international problems, neo-nazi Psi Corps organization...even a moment of alternative dystopian future where the heroic station crew changed the camp and became nazi-like murderers of alien races themselves.
And in a couple of episodes there is an excellent example of 'journalism' made state propaganda - filming everyday life with all its ups and downs, and in the same time telling a story that people have to see to support the agenda of the corrupted government.
I'm astonished that people who created this series and were supposed to watch them in the first place has fallen into all these traps.
While Russian propaganda learned the lesson very well.
I'm re-watching the series to keep me out of despair. And to be able to stand between the candle and the star.
