RE: A "meta-argument" against all future arguments for God's existence ?
March 6, 2022 at 1:12 am
(March 5, 2022 at 8:33 am)Belacqua Wrote: Corporate media like Star Trek is designed to flatter and massage the audience, spoon feeding emotions in pre-tested satisfying amounts. So if a book demands that a person change his pace and his type of attention, and sort of re-do how he relates to a thing, it has managed something important.
I'm not one to claim that Star Trek is better than than difficult or special works.
But your appraisal seems a bit too cynical. A lot of people have worked on Star Trek. Some of them wanting to flatter and spoon feed a key demographic for profits, sure. But others were simply capable craftsmen. And there were even some extremely creative and free thinking people, who poured that part of their nature into the project.
Think of network TV as being a set of creative parameters. (You can't make a network tv show dull and monotonous, for example.) As we all know, limitations can enhance a creative project-- and help give it structure. Limitations don't always stifle creativity.