I enjoyed the Gerry Anderson series "Space:1999" (1975-77) with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, at least in its first season.
As a teenager I often wondered what life would be like in the new century. Would we be putting our energies into space exploration, or would the world continue in perpetual conflicts, some drummed up by our own leaders? Would there still be poverty and racial-tinged neglect in our cities?
Thirty-some years on, I had my answer.
LOL Wasn't the programme about Moonbase Alpha Doug? This video appears to be set at Moonbase Epsilon, which I thought was another place altogether?
ReplyDeleteOnly goes to show that we Earthlings don't have all the answers after all.
Not subtle, but entertaining.
ReplyDeletevery funny ... too bad the program was cancelled ... I could use more laughs!!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE IT!!!!
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!
Indeed it was originally Moonbase Alpha, AA. (Moonbase Epsilon I think was the nickname for the Yale University's notorious secret "Skull and Bones" Fraternity-- back when Bush the Twit was being trained to be more arrogant than he already was.
ReplyDelete"Space 1999" was the show where the moon un-moored from the Earth's gravity in a stunning cosmic event, and the people on the base were left drifting hopelessly in the galaxy, far from safety.
Actually, come to think of it, that's rather like the people left behind without safety in New Orleans during the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And also the men and women of the US Armed Forces, sent out to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that didn't exist.
Who knew the creators of "The Thunderbirds" and "Stingray" could have created such a perfect political allegory for future times ;- )
Yes, Jeff, but subtle wasn't Team Bush's stock-in-trade anyway. OK, perhaps that picture of Donald Rumsfeld looking like a vampire wasa bit over the top. Still got me laughing.
ReplyDeleteI tried to watch the sceond season of "1999" a couple times and it had really gone downhill. It did get funny--in an unintentional way I thought--toward the end of season one. Still popular maybe, but the tank was empty on that show.
ReplyDeleteMe too, TL. It reallly fits the Bush Years, doesn't it?
ReplyDelete“By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts, but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced; with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.”
ReplyDeleteErich Fromm
Professor Fromm put it as good as it could be laid out. Thanks, AA, for adding real food for thought to my little bit of snarkiness.
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