Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: The Children Will Lead
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:08:19 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <vtp684$2poao$10@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:08:21 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="614e0562574cd2f9c1311e9030eee72e";
	logging-data="2941272"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18X8eBgcyQ5CalB9H6DXto2AEaQrZdY4UI="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:JekxMIn4PLAWp0xFtjXNGw/9q9k=
Content-Language: en-CA
X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250416-4, 4/16/2025), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
Bytes: 2356

I just rewatched this episode of the original Star Trek and was struck 
by how it resonated with what we see on some college campuses these 
days; the only difference was the age of the children involved.

In both the Star Trek episode and real life, children seem to be getting 
seduced into following an evil force - the Gorgon or Hamas - by someone 
older who means to raise an army of followers and then wreak death and 
destruction on those who oppose them. The college protest leaders are 
calling for a global intifada, which is surely going to be a bloody 
affair just as the Gorgon proposed to inflict on the people of Marcus 12 
who resisted the children. Just as the children in the episode were 
indifferent to the death of their parents, the older children on the 
campuses are indifferent to the 1200+ Israelis who were murdered on Oct 
7 2023.

Kirk finally helped free the children from their indoctrination by 
showing them happy times with their parents and then the parents graves. 
Maybe we need to try that with the pro-Hamas crowd: show them the 
documentaries about the young people massacred at the Nova Music 
Festival or the people of all ages killed in their kibbutzes near Gaza. 
I wonder if that would help them find their humanity again?

-- 
Rhino