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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 60 points 3 weeks ago

History keeps repeating itself because we’re too stupid to learn from it.

I’m watching The West Wing now and I got to the part about Gaza and NOTHING has changed since the 1990s.

I watched Babylon 5 during the original COVID lockdown and the episode about pandemics called out science deniers and how they make pandemics worse 25 years in advance!

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

WRT to Babylon 5 - the Spanish Flu pandemic had anti-maskers and deniers too. I think it's less prescient and more "this is what humanity actually looks like", which is a core theme for a lot of episodic sci-fi.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

I believe we've moved from the "tragedy" iteration to the "farce".

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