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Much sorrow has come on the world because true believers wanted to experiment with and enforce their view of the way the world should be. The good news is, man will realize his dream. But most have no idea how it will come about.
by Bill Bradford
y children started watching it first. I happened to see it on television occasionally. Then I found myself drawn into this social drama by the endless manifestations of ever-evolving technology. Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry, is the popular space-odyssey television adventure in which man in the 25th century is expanding his philosophy and near-utopian coexistence among other, less-sophisticated, inhabitants of the galaxies.
It's an idea older than Plato that man can somehow engineer a civilization that brings peace, happiness and prosperity to all who can be persuaded to embrace its philosophy.
In Star Trek peace has been achieved on earth, and the goal is to expand the peace of "the Federation" to societies elsewhere in the universe. In the more recent versions of this television series, the officers and crews of various spacecraft contact numerous civilizations, usually those in lower stages of development, and succeed to one degree or another in spreading their gospel of peace.
The advanced moral arguments and self-control of trained Star-Fleet Academy officers almost always prevail, conveying enlightened solutions to cultures in crisis.
The idea of a society in which evil no longer prevails and good reigns supreme has always been a part of human dreams. Star Trek, one of the later and more popular manifestations, has its appeal in its ability to take seemingly insoluble earthly problems, throw them into space, stir in a bit of technology and somehow find solutions.
We want solutions. In fact, most would choose to live in the perfect society if they could. The legacy of man's inhumanity to man has driven the philosophers among us to visualize a time and situation in which all the undesired elements of our society are removed.
Frustrated longing
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