all too realistic

[kindkit]

I have a feeling that watching the DS9 two-parter "Past Tense" in 2010 is a very different experience than watching it in 1994 would have been. The details that probably seemed alarmist and preachy then--official ghettos full of the long-term unemployed and the untreated mentally ill--look eerily like prophecy now. I could picture 2024 being exactly like that. Except actually the episode might be too optimistic, because the people in the Sanctuary district had guaranteed food and at least some medical care.

Also, watching "Past Tense" as someone going through long-term unemployment? Scary as hell.

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