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Monday, July 14, 2014

Meanwhile, Here in the Unenlightened Future...


"Lucien," a/k/a Lucifer
Captain James T. Kirk defends Lucifer. This animated episode didn't raise an eyebrow when it aired on Saturday morning children's TV in 1973, but would have the Tea Party screaming bloody murder if it aired today, after four decades of the dumbification of America.
In this episode from the Emmy-winning series, the crew of the Enterprise learns that Earth’s myths about Lucifer, witches and devils were based on advanced alien intelligences who had been attempting to help humanity. Kirk ends up defending the rebel being who had liked humanity best, whom we know as “Lucifer.”
That was, of course, before tolerance and intelligence were successfully demonized by the American right wing.

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