"Snowpiercer's New Trailer Illuminates the Difference" Topic

…Between the Haves and the Have-Nots

"Much as TNT's Snowpiercer is literally going to be a series about a massive train plowing its way through the snow on a planet that's turned into a frozen apocalyptic wasteland, it's also a story about how the wealthy willingly subjugate impoverished people in the midst of a global crisis in order to fool themselves into believing that everything's just going to be fine. Imagine living in that sort of world. How wild.

The upcoming series' latest trailer lays its conceit out in a clear and profound way: the entire world is dead and frozen save for a select few who all somehow managed to board a massive train whose sole purpose is to consistently smash through the planet's ice and snow while keeping its passengers safe. But the train can only function because of the backbreaking labor that the lower-class passengers are forced to do on a daily basis while their wealthier counterparts enjoy luxuries like elegant dining and organized schooling…"
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I think this belongs on Utter Drivel!

You know it is actually the sequel to "Willy Winks and the chocolate factory"?

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Socialist politics?

If you want to argue that something should happen, or might happen, fiction is a good way to do it. It works well enough for "this is how an attitude or a policy works out at the level of individuals."

But if you want to say "X is true! It's happening right now! Vote the way I want you to!!" fiction is an abominable way to do it. Anyone can write a story in which the rich are idle and out of touch, just as anyone can write a story in which the poor are stupid and lazy. Neither need have any relationship to truth.

For that, we have NON-fiction with footnotes, bibliography and, sometimes, even fact-checking. But that would involve research, facts and reason. Someone might even learn something. So much safer to just create a universe which is the way you'd like to think this one is, and that seems to be gizmodo's preferred option.

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New Trailer….

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