The Politics of Sci-Fi

Errol Louis: I would find that a lot of people who really love the EU were Star Trek kids when they were young. And it was like they grew up with that sense of progress is towards, you know, essentially the kind of world government and then reaching out to the stars. So maybe if Musk had read more Ray Bradbury, it would have had a place. Now there's a weird thing here is that until he hosted Saturday Night Live in 2021, Musk never said he had asperges. But in the documentary, Errol says that kind of this makes sense. He plays chest or high level, builds his own rocket kits, designs a computer game called Blastar when

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