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   On 2025-12-24 9:22 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > Rhino  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I remember reading a famous comment by someone who's name I've forgotten   
   >> to the effect that "inside every bureaucrat is a dictator screaming to   
   >> get out". (If anyone remembers the exact phrase and who said it, I'd   
   >> love to know.) I think we can safely suspect Von der Leyen of being a   
   >> living example of that, along with most of the teachers and   
   >> administrators in our school systems, more accurately described as   
   >> "indoctrination centers".   
   >   
   > That was the plot of the excellent Colony: Peter Jacobson was a   
   > bureaucrat who became an overseer of humanity, collaberating with unseen   
   > alien occupiers.   
   >   
   > And Brazil, of course.   
      
   I had to look up Colony in IMDB to be sure it was the show I thought it   
   was. I turned out to be right. Unfortunately, I only watched the first   
   episode (or maybe a couple of more) but it didn't click with me so I   
   never saw Peter Jacobson at all if I recall correctly.   
      
   As someone who grew up devouring SF, you'd think I'd watch more of it   
   but I rarely find it engaging any more. It's too dystopian for my   
   tastes: there rarely seems to be even a ray of sunshine in whatever   
   world the writers have conjured up. I suppose I'm waiting for a more   
   optimistic SF that sees the possibilities of discovery and growth for   
   our explorers and incalculable benefits for the rest of us, not a   
   despotism that just seems a slightly more extreme version of what we   
   already have....   
      
   --   
   Rhino   
      
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