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In Star Wars, the State is the enemy and the Rebellion is a libertarian/anarchocapitalist-religious fundamentalist utopia that glorifies asymmetric warfare/terrorism while in Star Trek, the State is a (mostly) benevolent democratic socialist utopia that emphasizes diplomacy and peacemaking.

Perhaps ironically, the former fantasy aligns more with conservative/authoritarian/imperialist ideologies while the latter aligns more with progressive/egalitarian/anti-imperialist/post-colonialist ideologies.

The Essential Difference Between Star Wars and Star Trek • 2016 Jan 21 • Charlie Jane Anders • io9

Old music now appears to be more popular than new music, but it relies entirely on how you define old music.

Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history • 2016 Jan 20 • Adam Pugsley • Chart Attack

So, yeah, apparently “old music” is definied as “music older than 18 months”.

Basically the last 18 months of music sold 118.5 million albums while the preceding 60+ years of music (depending on whether you’re counting from when the first LP was released or when the word “album” came to mean “long-playing gramophone record”) sold 122.8 million albums.

I do not think this means what you think it means.

The irony is that every time this post shows up on my newsfeed, a Justin Bieber song gets stuck in my head.