First thought that struck me was the Star Trek Episode where the scientist found out Warp Drive was weakening space-time, so that it could 'rip open'.
The scientist were shunned, but eventually did prove it.
But even then, the Federation could not "stop" using warp drive.
It was one of first instances I saw that even in Star Trek, with all the high ideals, once confronted with something that would shut down progress and travel, they also just kept on going. They didn't do anything about it.
We can't even fantasize about humans coming together to solve a civilization ending threat. Stories where we do come together, we reject, they seem un-natural, they are deemed un-realistic.
Yeah humans are not too good at gracefully paradigm shifting. That is why in academia people usually wait for the old ones to die off before something truly new can be introduced. I'm not singling out academia, this is pretty much all over the the place.
This Star Trek just to show no matter how technologically advanced we are, we are still don't like go out side of our world view. Kind makes one thing should we all be focusing on technological advances, or how we can more gracefully shifting our paradigm, instead of waiting for old guys to die off.
It was a realistic response, and an episode years ahead of its time in its climate change allegory (several years ahead of an inconvienent truth for example)
Alas aside from a couple of references later in S7 of TNG, trek then decided to handwave a technical solution in the background and we never heard of the problem again.
Indeed Trek in later years (Picard season 2) also said that climate change in the Trek universe was solved by magical microbes from Europa.
But even then, the Federation could not "stop" using warp drive.
It was one of first instances I saw that even in Star Trek, with all the high ideals, once confronted with something that would shut down progress and travel, they also just kept on going. They didn't do anything about it.
We can't even fantasize about humans coming together to solve a civilization ending threat. Stories where we do come together, we reject, they seem un-natural, they are deemed un-realistic.
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