I would suddenly feel very sad for the one of them that bottled it up for 40 years, and for the other who obviously has known for many of those years...
Underlegislation leads to a bloated, extortionate upper crust that weilds disproportionate power over those who rely on said financial system. There is a balance, and the problem you outline is the lesser of the two extremes.
That mentality is surely broader than fascism itself. You see it in any hypernationalist state. Rome had "the barbarians." The British Empire had "the savages." Nazi Germany had "the jews." There is always an "other" when the state needs it. Unless you're painting a broader form of fascism, perhaps.
Well, when IQ was invented, it was assumed that well-adjusted people generally had higher IQs, and since there -are- people with incredably inhibited mental capability, and those people -are- considered neurodivergent by definition, it was assumed that high functioning neurodivergent people must also be "mentally deficient" if they can't function properly in society, with some exceptions to savants who were recognized as being so highly capable in their field that it compensated for their "stupidity" in common matters. It's also noteworthy that public understanding of mental health disorders pre-80's boiled down to "r****d" and "schizo."
There's an art to it. I've read books where the villain wins only for it to be revealed that the protagonist was fighting for the wrong side. The only one who's title comes to mind is Columbus Day, where humans team up with aliens to fight other aliens that invade earth, only to realize that they joined the "fascist-leaning" side of the conflict as a species-wide pawn.
Maybe publishing houses will never get the memo, but the Helldivers team knew to make a fun game first, and THEN added amazing graphics. If the market prooves they prefer that dev cycle ethos, it will bring change.
Sci Fi is a flavor of fantasy that favors grounded explainations over magic, yet can't escape it entirely. In order for something to be sci fi, it must have something in it that can be percieved as "magical," even in the "sufficiently advanced technology" sense of the word. Jump/warp tech, laser weapons, space warfare in general, most life support concepts, AGI... All magic as far as we know now. Any sci fi without the roots of fantasy is really just modern fiction.
Protection from grit. And because polymers that can resist balistic shock and heat had only very recently been invented by then, and it was "cool" to find a way to make it useful.
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