For example: Jaws crashed the shark population and Sideways changed the popularity of 2 different Wines.
Here in Québec, there is a song by Gilles Vigneault that someone became what we use to sing happy birthday to someone. Beautiful song, great guy who, at around 95 years old , had his music removed from Spotify because they gave millions to Joe Rogan.
First thing that came to mind is Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle which led to, among other things, the creation of the FDA.
That wasn’t his goal though; he’s quoted as saying: “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
I know, the whole book is about how America is a giant con to get immigrants to come over so they can be exploited for profit then left to die with they can no longer work 12 hour shifts, meanwhile they get to watch their kids get poisoned by companies, ran over by commercial trucks and robbed of any dignity or chance they deserve.
Instead people read it and were like ‘omg some filthy polacks finger could be in my sausage, that’s disgusting!’
Theres still on average about 2 amputations per week across the US meat packaging industry. People are still getting maimed and killed doing a job that pays shit. You just don’t eat as much of them as you used to…
Theres still on average about 2 amputations per week across the US meat packaging industry. People are still getting maimed and killed doing a job that pays shit. You just don’t eat as much of them as you used to…
Damn, shrinkflation hitting everything
There was a minor news story about a decade ago about Tyson getting caught employing minors on the meat packing floor.
Jurassic Park caused a lot more kids to be interested in growing up to be paleantologists. Ironically, they went on to prove some of the science in the movie wrong
(Personal case, but i think i am not alone) I have been interested in science since Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, i was a kid when it aired.
For me it’s Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Beekman’s world was on around the same time. I used to love watching them both, although I don’t remember much of either of them
Also, does anyone remember Mr. Wizard?
The Matrix; check out “the internet” for some examples of its influence.
Do you mean The Matrix the movie, or The Matrix the thing William Gibson created in 1983?
Maybe the 1850s rebrand of 3000 year old math concept of arrays?
I still remember the long lines on launch day.
The Matrix was very much an expression of a subset of hacker culture of its time. Not a trendsetter.
It also gave us Elon Musk…
No. Fuck no.
Ye. Thats where this whole “we live in a simulation” comes from that elon is a follower off
He is an asshole from birth, no need to assign blame to any external entity.
I didnt blame him geing an asshole on matrix?!?!
You did say matrix “gave us Elon”. What did you mean by that, then?
Fun fact, the Internet was around long before The Matrix. We even had fledgling VR before then. Google VRML and The Lawnmwer Man.
Yesterday I stumbled upon a Sliders episode (probably from 98) where everybody is wearing VR goggles
Karl Marx’ “Das Kapital” pretty much invented communism.
Not really. It dunked so hard on capitalism that people are still afraid of it, and serves as a theoretical basis for many things, but communism is not new or invented.
Did communism exist as a political concept before Marx’ works?
Yes, although it wasn’t as widely known.
From the wiki on Communism:
One of the first uses of the word in its modern sense is in a letter sent by Victor d’Hupay to Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne around 1785, in which d’Hupay describes himself as an auteur communiste (“communist author”).[72] In 1793, Restif first used communisme to describe a social order based on egalitarianism and the common ownership of property.[73] Restif would go on to use the term frequently in his writing and was the first to describe communism as a form of government.[74]
As a political concept? Not in the exact words we use. Marx is what we can call a “discursive formation” for related and interconnected socio-political theories (just as Freud would be one for psychoanalysis). He gave us the standardized vocabulary, and effectively spoke it into being as we now conceive of it. I’m sure other posters are going to tag in quickly on this, but the tl;dr: there have always been class struggles. I would absolutely say it has always been a political matter. As far as a collectively-realized political concept, this has not always been the case. It really accelerated during the Industrial Revolution and the “Manifesto” pamphlet.
Edit: forgot to say, that’s a good question!
There hasn’t always been class struggle. Early communalism took up the bulk of human history, and was classless.
We can’t know how the unwritten portion of humanity went outside what we see in ruins. Modern anthropology seems to indicate that humanity has a deep urge towards social restructuring and politics. To frame it even as broadly as “classless communalism” is to ignore the tendency to reimagine society.
See The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow for more
We can reimagine all we like, and of course something as general as “classless communalism” is going to be reductive. There are many different types of existing capitalist and socialist societies, and there were many types of feudal and slave societies before them. Having social structure is not the same as having classes, either. Far-future communism will be highly structured and yet will not have classes.
Yes, but we’ve observed hunter gatherers who keep slaves, which is a class. And that’s not even touching on gender as a class. The book I referenced is written by an anthropologist and an archeologist trying to not let their left wing ideologies color their vision of the past, but rather to use modern academic ideas of the past as an inspiration and guide for our ability to reshape society going forward. I’d really recommend giving it a read, even if you find yourself ultimately disagreeing with the points.
True, however, there at some point is a social revolution creating the conditions necessary for a political revolution. So we have to ask ourselves, at what point did this classless society tip? What changed? I don’t have an answer, but something shifted to necessitate class struggle.
Agriculture created class society. Once it was discovered, the division of labor appeared, and thus from it sprang the division of society into workers and owners. The advancement to the next form of class society came alongside improvements in the means of production and distribution, creating new social relations and thus new classes to overtake the old.
Hasn’t agriculture always existed in some form, and then would class struggle not have always existed? Or do you mean a specific advancement (perhaps a technological point aka social revolution) that caused this division?
Yes. Many “primitive” (as the euro-centric description typically was at the time) tribal societies were.
Early communalism is not the same as communism, nor was early communalism something consciously understood within its historical context as agriculture and class society had not truly come into existence yet.
Yes.
You’d be naive of history to say otherwise.
Marx formalised an industrial era ideology from many existing concepts, evolving it further politically and economically to reapply those concepts to, what were then, modern times with rapidly expanding globalisation.
He was no Jesus, but he did preach the gospel.
I think they’re under the impression that until white western people formalize it, it doesn’t count. Which as a native I come across like weekly.
Oh don’t worry, as a white person I also come across this problem frequently.
It’s not just a problem that you need to be on the outside to see. It’s very visible inside the glass house too.
It’s a real fucking problem.
Might come as a shock, but most households are, in fact, communist.
Not quite the same. Communism is a fully collectivized global system, households are individual units within broader societies.
Yes. There were earlier Utopian socialists such as Robert Owen. Marx created dialectical materialism, advancing on Hegel’s idealist dialectics, and thus invented historical materialism and scientific socialism, the basis of all existing socialist states since Marx.
Star Trek introduced a lot of the first concepts of what we currently use as every day technology, it had a first hand tangible impact on the lives of pretty much every human alive today.
Hey I love star trek as much as the next guy but this is a bit of an overstatement.
They didn’t invent anything, it’s just a portrayal of what the future might look like.
Some of it is very obvious and not much of a prediction: like a hand held device with sensors - but they did get the form factor and use cases completely wrong.
Most of it is obviously remains fictional, like transporters.
Sorry if you want to say trek predicted the future you have to ignore the majority of the show which they got completely wrong.
Nowhere did I say they invented anything nor predicted the future. Learn some reading comprehension.
Oh sorry, it’s just that you seemed to be saying that star trek changed the world by introducing the first concepts of tech we used today.
It did. Do you not understand the difference between invention and first concept? I never gave them credit for everything, but it’s indisputable that the cell phone was inspired directly by Star Trek communicators, that is according to the inventor of the first cell phone, as well as the concept of multi-funtion interface devices which is exactly what you’re likely holding in your hand at this very moment which is also a cell phone.
Feel free to die on that hill, but what I’m saying is an objective fact.
LOL.
There’s some “objective facts” in that guys memoirs aparently:
As Martin Cooper reveals in his new memoir Cutting the Cord: The Creator of the Cell Phone Speaks Out, cellular technology was actually being developed in the late ’50s and through the ’60s. By the time Star Trek debuted in 1966, Cooper and his team at Motorola were practically in the home stretch; in 1973, they debuted the first-ever handheld mobile telephone, the brick-like DynaTAC. Cooper himself made the first cell phone call on October 17, 1973—to his chief competitor at AT&T, with whom he’d been in a bit of a cellular space race, as revealed in the book
The article goes on to explain coopers role in the star trek myth.
Very obviously, handheld devices were inevitable and predictable in the 60s when ToS was written. That was my original point.
See, it’s this kind of shit, this is exactly why people can’t fucking stand contrarians. Jesus fucking christ, get a life.
Ok let’s recap:
- you trot out something you learned from some shatner edutainment you saw, as fact
- assertion does not withstand a moment’s critical thought
- you double down with some ad hominem and some “objective facts”
- facts are proven false by your own purported source
- you triple down with more ad hominem, because of course you’re not the problem.
This pattern of interaction is common among a particular type of person. I’ll give you a tip for free: it’s not smart people.
Geordi is also why I became an engineer.
Hell yeah.
Metallica held a concert in Russia and two weeks later communism fell.
David Hasselhoff single-handedly caused the fall of the Berlin wall.
Sounds like the effect JD Vance had on the Pope
Did the pope fall after their conversation?
Torah, Bible, and Quran, unfortunately.
Faith in itself isnt a bad thing. The problem lies in the unquestionability of its preachers.
Faith is literally defined as believing whatever someone tells you, without proof
Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.
“Faith” is a bug in the human psyche.
So elephants are also bugged?
Is the belief in the easter bunny or saint nicolaus bad? How is it bad to find comfort in a curtain thought of what happens after death?
Why be so negativ and not let people enjoy faith. Have cathars, lollards, fracitellis, bun, shinto or celtic beliefers hurt you so badly or are you trying to be extra edgy and ass-holy?
Yes all of those are exploits of that bug. How many kids cry when they learn Santa isn’t real?
Take a look at history to see what happens when one group of people get told their imaginary friend is the fake one and they have to switch to a different one
The first Federal laws against hacking and computer crimes was a direct reaction to the movie War Games (1983).
From Wikipedia:
President Ronald Reagan, a family friend of Lasker’s, watched the film and discussed the plot with members of Congress, his advisers, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Reagan ordered a full national security review. Within a week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff returned an answer: “Yes, the premise was technically possible”. Reagan’s interest in the film is credited with leading to the enactment 18 months later of NSDD-145, the first Presidential directive on computer security.
Some of the early science fiction novels had real impact by providing plausible guiding lights for actual scientists about which directions to go in their pursuit of technological advancements. It’s been said that the first step in innovation is imagination, not actual scientific progress.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote Islands in the Sky about what could happen if artificial satellites became a real thing.
Prophetic.
The Avesta, we’ve been telling stories about the duality of the universe, good and evil, ever since. Apparently can’t get enough of that shit.
Avesta definitely inspired the Hebrew bible, which in turn inspired Christianity and then Islam. So it can be arguably be the most influential piece of media ever created.
Janet Jackson’s nipple slip was a major contributor to the creation of YouTube.
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