The more time goes by and events of the current age unfold the more 
reminiscent it is, to me, of a made-for-tv mini-series I watched as a kid in
the 1980's: V.

Yes, yes, it's that movie with the lizard aliens but if you look past the 
lizard thing there were a lot of subjects in that mini-series that really 
made me think.  I remember I was in elementary school and I stayed up late and
watched it and lost a lot of sleep.  I was super tired the next day.  I tried
to talk about it with my classmates but no one seemed to know or care about
anything I had to say, which was something I was pretty used to.

The main themes that really stuck with me are:
* The quick rise of authoritarianism in the united states (although the aliens
where taking over the whole world but this was focused on Los Angeles, of course)
* The fact that police on all levels will fall in line and just obey whoever
is the alpha-dog of the moment.  They will not serve and protect, they will 
not uphold the constitution, they are mearly attack dogs that just bite 
whoever the powers-that-be in the moment tell them to bite and they'll like
doing it.
* The first to get taken out are scientists.  In this mini-series it was
because the aliens were afraid that the scientists would discover that the
aliens were reptiles and would develop a weapon against them.
* The fact that the media falls in line very much like the police do and are
so eager to be their propoganda machine.  Which was used to villify scientists.

Of course that doesn't mean we're being overtaken by aliens (although I'm not
dismissing that possibility at this time). 

The one theme in V that so far I haven't seen is something I would really like
to see, a resistance movement.  In V people gave up their jobs and
risked the lives of themselves and families to try to resist the invasion even
as the bulk of the public still was under the illusion that the aliens were
there to be mankind's friend and that they were just here to manufacture some
chemicals that they desparately needed and would return the favor by sharing
cancer cures and other technological advancements with us.  

In the real world, here and now, (if this even is the *real* world, I'm not
dismissing that possibility either).  I see zero actual resistance.  I see
a lot of bickering and complaining and yelling.  

Most likely the reason for this is because in the 1980's people talked with 
mouths, face to face, and met in person, and there was no algorithm which 
said "don't listen to that person, listen to this person" and there was no
corporate robots saying "sorry but you're going to have to be squelched 
because it appears you're trying to organize a meaningful resitance movement 
and that violates our terms of service".

In as much as the internet connects us it also keeps us from saying or hearing
the things that matter the most in this moment.  If anyone got close to 
getting a real resistance movement off the ground they'd be killed or 
deported and their words scrubbed from the internet.
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