Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-29 (Sunday)

Dude, you watched a lot of TV.

I watched several more My Little Pony episodes. It's a silly show, but
it's making me happy. I kind of get why it was so huge.

I also watched another ST:TNG. It was the one where Data has a vision
and decides to find its meaning. It's okay overall. I object to Picard's
speech, though, in which he claims that Data is a culture of one and
also claims that dream symbols are uninfluenced by culture.

There is no such thing as a culture of one. Culture must be shared by
definition. Furthermore, it's not true that Data is unique -- he has a
brother, does he not? At a minimum, they're a culture of two. Further,
both are the creations of Dr. Soong and partook of the culture of the
colony where they were made, which itself was derived from Earth
culture.

Also, dreams absolutely totally *do* use symbols from broader culture.
Picard is so confidently wrong.


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