star trek
Saturday, March 22, 2008 (1:06 PM)
i never understood what this show is about. the name simply conjures the image of badly scarred creatures or animal-faced people and i always thought it was about some aliens travelling in space. which is also why i never understood why people watch this show.
but recently i caught some episodes of it. though i'm still not a fan of this show, i noticed that it repeatedly reminds us humans that we, at least for some time, were savage. we probably still are and i'm reminded of the social contract that we're bound to. sometimes, i feel like the freedom we have is all illusory. we only have as much freedom as certain people dictate. i'm getting sick of these bonds but at the same time, i acknowledge that the world would be even more chaotic if the contracts don't exist.
life is always contradictory, isn't it?