From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 14, 2026 at 3:22:09 AM PST, "The True Melissa"   
    wrote:   
      
   > Verily, in article , did   
   > weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:   
   >>   
   >>  thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:   
   >>  >Verily, in article , did weberm@polaris.net   
   >>  >deliver unto us this message:   
   >>  >There's a theory that this is another Dark Ages, because once again   
   >>  >we're exhaustively mining the past instead of creating anything   
   >>  >ourselves. I don't know if it will last as long. We're mining the   
   >>  >culture of mere decades ago, and I'm not sure there's enough of it to   
   >>  >keep us going as a society of sequels and reboots.   
   >>   
   >>  Dave Cullen discussed that recenrtly:   
   >>   
   >>  Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and The Slop of Hollywood   
   >>  https://youtu.be/PNTHlAn6AyU?si=NJfr_z6J49cj2Ih3   
   >   
   > I just watched that. He seems to tie the mining in with wokeness, and   
   > I'm not sure that's so. There may be common factors, though.   
   >   
   > I've come to believe that we should rewind the world by at least a few   
   > decades and try again. We didn't do it right.   
      
   It was when Harambe was killed. That shunted into a pocket universe and   
   everything's been going off the rails since.   
      
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