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What’s the point of a fictional utopia during a non-fictional dystopia?

2020 has been a strange year to be someone who thinks a lot about Star Trek, just as it's been a strange time to be, well, literally anyone.

Peter Aidan Byrne (pop) cultural criticism Leave a comment September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 6 Minutes

“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth”: Chernobyl, The Inventor, and the inconvenience of objective reality

If the FYRE documentary felt like a dark comedy, The Inventor gets a little bit closer to dystopia ... and Chernobyl takes that progression to its logical, horrifying, heart-breaking endpoint.

Peter Aidan Byrne (pop) cultural criticism Leave a comment June 14, 2019June 15, 2019 8 Minutes

“Good man” entitlement in The Handmaid’s Tale … and in real life

Actually doing good would require the Commander to relinquish the monstrous power he's granted himself, and it would never occur to him to do that ... but neither would it ever occur to him that he isn't entitled to feel like a good person, regardless.

Peter Aidan Byrne (pop) cultural criticism Leave a comment September 29, 2018January 28, 2019 4 Minutes

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