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🌌 1977: A Sci-Fi Space Opera That failed to Launch STEM

When Star Wars hit theaters, it was a cinematic wormhole to the cosmos. 🌀
Lines wrapped around blocks; kids who had never touched a telescope 🔭 now wanted to “fly an X-wing” ✈️. The window to space was flung open.

But Lucas’s galaxy was built on myth, not momentum:
🧙‍♂️ The Force replaced physics, ⚔️ lightsabers replaced engineering, 🚧 X fighter trench runs stood in for orbital mechanics.

Western sci-fi followed suit:
🎆 Spectacle > science, 🩸 Jedi bloodlines > equations.
🧸 The toy industry soared; 📉 STEM enrollment did not.

📚 2006: China Opens Same Window

Meanwhile in China, Liu Cixin released The Three-Body Problem no 🧙‍♂️ magic, no 👑 dynasties, just 📈 orbital perturbations, 🧵 nanowires, and 🤖 cosmic sociology.

The trilogy: 📚 sold 29M+, 🏆 won a Hugo, 🔥 sparked a STEM boom.

By 2023:
🧑‍🚀 62% of Chinese aerospace freshmen 🚀 credited hard sci-fi
🎬 Wandering Earth hit big, with actual thruster math 🔧📐

In 2020:
📜 Sci-fi declared a national soft-power tool; 🛰️ CNSA linked with filmmakers; 🎯 Fiction became policy.

⚔️ 2012–2023: Disney’s Fork in the Hyperlane

Disney buys Star Wars for $4B 💰 with everything needed to pivot to inspiring, science-rooted SF.

Instead? The Force has no gender became in the First summit: “The Force is female” 👩‍🚀
Collapse followed:

👥 Legacy recasts for optics, 📉 galactic stakes shrunk to culture war, ⚠️ physics replaced by plot magic:
✨ Hyperspace-skips, 🚀 Holdo kamikaze, 🧘 Rey’s 24-hour Jedi diploma
🌀 The Force was never meant to be female, male, or non‑binary.
⚖️ It was meant to be accurate.

🎯 China’s Science Fiction as Soft‑Power Strategy

China’s policy pivoted to use sci-fi to:
👨‍🏫 popularize science, 👩‍🔬 inspire engineers, 🧭 shape global ambitions. Institutions like 🎥 the China Film Administration and 🧪 CAST issue real guidelines, shaping stories to support R&D, movies become educational weapons.

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❌ Epilogue: The Window Shuts

Now: China?
🚀 Exports propulsion concepts born in fiction into engineering labs.

The Star Wars saga that once opened the sky 🌌 now sells gravity-defying nostalgia. 🪐

How can anyone take Australian politics seriously ? pic.twitter.com/WXUj28BgIS

— V (@littlemykonos) July 24, 2025

⚖️ The Tribunal’s Verdict

In July 2025, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) upheld the Medical Board’s suspension of GP Dr Jereth Kok.

The reason? Not malpractice. Not clinical complaints. But Facebook memes.

VCAT found that 54 of Dr Kok’s 85 social media posts breached the Medical Board’s Code of Conduct by undermining public trust, even though they had no link to his clinical care.

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📜 The 54 Posts in Focus

VCAT divided the offending posts into five ideological categories:

• 🍼 Abortion
  Described terminations as “massacres of babies” and labelled abortion providers “serial contract killers.”
• 🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Issues
  Shared Babylon Bee satire, mocked pronouns, and called gender-affirming surgery “medical butchery.”
• 🏳️‍🌈 Same-Sex Marriage
  Opposed it on moral and scriptural grounds, calling it “immoral.”
• 🦠 COVID-19
  Compared lockdowns to authoritarian regimes and suggested vaccination was like “Russian roulette.”

💡 Institutional Logic: Risk Over Principle

Modern institutions, from hospitals to hedge funds, aren’t governed by personal convictions. They’re run on risk frameworks.

The real question HR thinks about now isn’t: “Is this person right?”

It’s: “Could this person become a problem?”

And on that scoreboard, the girl-boss has a built-in advantage.

👩‍💼 Why the Girl-Boss Wins

✅ She avoids PR hazards.
She doesn’t post edgy memes or push ideological boundaries. She posts safe content that aligns with corporate values.

✅ She enforces the rules.
She works inside HR, DEI, or compliance. Her job is to apply the policy, not critique it.

✅ She ranks high in institutional trust.
Pew and GSS surveys show women score higher than men in trust toward government, healthcare, and educational systems. That makes her a lower-risk hire.

✅ She’s liability-proof.
No alt account. No podcast. No viral controversy.

✅ She scales safely.
She can be promoted, branded, and sent to speak on panels without creating reputational risk.

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📉 Why the Boy-Boss Gets Cancelled

He’s unpredictable, posts content that pushes limits.
He thinks being “based” is better than being “safe.”
But institutions don’t reward that. They want compliance, not charisma.

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🧮 This Isn’t Personal, It’s Portfolio Management

Dr Kok didn’t lose his license because Victoria hates his faith.
He lost it because his public statements made him a reputational liability.

The decision wasn’t ideological. It was managerial.

Group shot of the xAI team

🔥 THE DEAL
• 50-year AUKUS-lite defence pact → signed & sealed.
• Billions for subs, spy planes, “interoperability” workshops.
• Canberra locks its military supply chain to a country that can’t keep the lights on.

🎓 UK REALITY CHECK
• £42 bn / yr in foreign-student tuition, bigger than aerospace + cars + oil combined.
• Chinese enrolments -7 % YoY; visa rules being rewritten overnight.
• Universities leveraged like hedge funds; one bad intake = campus fire-sales.
• 1 in 3 British households skipped heating last winter to pay the energy bill. (ONS 2023)

🧬 PIPELINE WHIPLASH
🇬🇧 Old Power Pipeline
Oxbridge (Philosophy, Politics, Economics)→ Goldman Sachs / Whitehall
– Moves money, drafts policies
– Exports: Financialized prestige

🇨🇳 New Elite Pipeline
Tsinghua / Zhejiang / Fudan STEM → ByteDance / Huawei / Tencent AI
– Builds hypersonics, controls infrastructure
– Exports: Tech that dictates sovereignty

Beijing’s STEM grads now skip the UK detour. Every cohort that stays home = one less full-fee student + one more engineer building the very kit that will achieve per-emienence over the Pacific.

🔥 THE IRONY
Australia anchors its defence to a nation that:
• Has no sovereign AI/tech base (Arm HQ just IPO’d in NYC)
• Exports consultants, not capability: Mass-produces elite financiers while China graduates 10x more AI engineers.
• Relies on the same Chinese talent pipeline it now labels a strategic threat.

Bottom line:
The UK trains global elites in governance decks; China trains engineers who build the future and Australia just bet 50 years of security on the former.

Name	Amount (\$)	Sentence	Background
Kristopher Andree-Jansz	2,402,258	4 y 7 m	Dutch-Sri Lankan
Daniel Copeland	1,134,163	3 y	Anglo-Australian
Tahra Wyntjes	599,349	4 y	Anglo-Australian
Joshua Merrett	394,801	2 y 11 m	Anglo-Australian
Lee Sheridan	377,820	2 y (served 6 m)	Anglo-Australian
Thitikorn Thanawong	296,212	2 y 8 m	Thai-Australian
Darnelle Te Kiri	202,936	17 m	Māori-Australian
Kim Orense	214,011	18 m	Filipino-Australian
Tewhanaupani Nukunuku	168,000	2 y 3 m	Māori
Gregory Pimm	167,690	2 y 6 m (served 6 m)	Anglo-Australian
Adam Hohenberger	108,451	2 y 3 m (served 8 m)	German-Australian
Aman Akol	85,759	6 m	Sudanese-Australian
Craig Hamilton	80,000	2.5 m	Anglo-Australian
Arec Akol	69,461	3 m	Sudanese-Australian
Tiarn Nutley	49,700	9 m	Anglo-Australian
Jessica Pakatyilla	49,700	2 y	Indigenous-Australian
Benjamin West	49,226	2 y (served 6 m)	Anglo-Australian
Lisa McCormick	39,600	2 y 6 m	Anglo-Australian
Abigail Ussher	—	12 m	Anglo-Australian
Skye Hoek	25,147	3 m	Anglo-Australian
Joshua Mitchell	24,200	18 m	Anglo-Australian
Adam Mitchell	18,000	15 m CCO	Anglo-Australian

When you examine the names and backgrounds of those prosecuted under operations like Australia’s Operation Protego, a deeper irony emerges: white collar crime is overwhelmingly committed by people with European or Anglo-sounding surnames.

What the scam was
– A $2 billion “TikTok GST fraud” in which tens of thousands of people (56,000+) lodged fake Business Activity Statements through the ATO’s low-touch mobile app.
– No receipts, no verification: the system was built for speed, not fraud detection.

How “Sarah” did it
– She invented a hairdressing business, entered fictitious sales figures on the app and received roughly $30,000 in GST refunds in a matter of weeks.

Why it was possible
– ATO fraud-detection systems were “no better than random,” according to the Auditor-General.
– 2014 public-service cuts had removed most of the human reviewers who used to check GST claims manually.
– The promised automated fraud-detection upgrade was delivered 12 months late.

How it finally stopped
– ATO eventually switched on better analytics and began retro-auditing claims.
– Only 122 people have been convicted so far; about $160 million of the $2 billion stolen has been recovered.
– Many perpetrators are on welfare or in low-income brackets, so recovery prospects are slim.

Current knock-on problem
– Identity takeover fraud: criminals now lodge fake GST refunds using stolen TFNs and business details, leaving the real taxpayer to prove it wasn’t them.

https://www.ato.gov.au/about-ato/tax-avoidance/the-fight-against-tax-crime/our-focus/refund-fraud/gst-refund-fraud-attempts/operation-protego

After Rome, the West rebooted into a strange but resilient hybrid OS. One half sacred, the other tribal. One governed by scriptural order, the other ruled by myth and memory.

⛪ The Church Installed Order
As imperial bureaucracy dissolved, the Christian Church stepped in as sysadmin. Popes became emperors in robes, bishops replaced governors, and monks quietly kept the memory of Roman law alive in scriptoriums. Civilization was salvaged not with swords but with sermons, scrolls, and sanctified hierarchy.

🐺 The Tribes Preserved Loyalty
With no empire to pledge allegiance to, loyalty fragmented. Gothic, Vandal, and Frankish identities didn’t vanish; they shapeshifted. Bloodlines turned into banners. Clan loyalty evolved into regional pride. Eventually, this tribalism transmuted into the secular devotion we now call Sports Fandom. The empire was gone, but the instinct to chant for colors survived.

🛠 The Patch: Cathedral + Carnival
The CathedralOS, WindowsOS, a holy bureaucracy still echoing in today’s institutions

The TribalOS, Linux Open Source fork, chaotic, carnivalesque energy manifesting in pop culture, memes, and mascots

This dual-booted system still runs the West. You can see it in how we govern, pray, protest, and post. The sacred and the absurd, side by side.

🎭 South Park: The Tiny Totem Update
Fast forward to the present. Enter South Park, the satirical syslogger of American dysfunction. In a recent episode, the show takes Trump’s (allegedly) tiny penis, long a subject of ridicule, and performs a ritual transformation.

What was once a defect becomes doctrine:

• CathedralOS says: “Cover thy nakedness”
• South Park patch notes: “Expose it. Mock it. Turn it into a badge of tribal honor” Soon, #TinyDickEnergy is trending.

Approximately 35,000 people were killed by American military forces and their supporters during the span of 52 days.

According to a dispatch, titled “Sinchon simmering with rage”, released on 3 July 1998 by the Korean Central News Agency:

“The Yankees separated the mothers from their children before pouring gasoline at the children and babies who were crying for drinking water and milk. When the children and babies sucked gasoline and were crying, feeling great pains, the Yankees threw flaming torches to kill them. They also threw explosives at the mothers. The American soldiers drowned over 2,000 innocent people by dropping them from Soktang bridge. They also drowned more than 1,000 women in Sowon reservoir. Upwards of 1,200 patriotic-minded people detained in an ice warehouse were bitten to death by military dogs.”

Clearest view of China's second 6th gen fighter design, this one is designed by SAC.

It's smaller with a 2 engine set up, it's also a tailless flying wing design, albeit more conventional compared to the CAC's 3 engine design.

From the looks of it, this SAC design is more… pic.twitter.com/tqUQYRD01s

— Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 (@zhao_dashuai) December 26, 2024

Next gen Jets not just fighters. They’re integrated testbeds for the tech stack behind tomorrow’s orbital shuttles:
✈️🔥 Hypersonic propulsion
🤖✅ AI-piloted autonomy
🛡️🔥 Radical thermal materials
The jump from private jets to intercontinental shuttles is no longer a fantasy.
It’s now an engineering and certification project.
The clock started ticking in December 2024. ⏰

📅 From fighter to 60-minute Earth shuttle. Here’s the countdown:

2024 – 🏁✈️ Race-Car Flight
J-36 first flight: Mach 2.4 engine, AI autopilot, heat-proof skin. All proven in one airframe.

2025–2027 – 🔧📚 Parts Get Tamed
Engineers run 500-hour torture tests, teach AI 1,000 “save-the-day” moves, and bake the skin through 15,000 cycles.
Regulators quietly draft the first “hypersonic passenger” rulebook.

2028–2030 – 🚐🌍 Mini-Shuttle Demo
12-seat X-planes fly paying volunteers. Dubai to Tokyo in 2 hours 15 minutes.

2031–2033 – ✅🏅 Safety Stamp
After 1,000 test flights and 40,000 passenger-miles, the shuttle earns its airline license.

2034 – 🚀🛬 Star Commuter Mk I Opens
30-seat cabin. Operates from normal airports.

2035–2037 – 🚀🌌 Sub-Orbital Hopper
Rocket-boosted 100 km arc. Reach any two cities in 90 minutes.

2038+ – 🏙️🌐 Everyday Transport
60 to 80-seat shuttles. Sydney to Shanghai in 57 minutes. Priced like today’s business class.

Countdown began in December 2024. On a fighter, not a rocket.

Something snapped this year. The establishment press: networks, papers, late-night marquee names split right down the middle. On one side stand the realists: four decades of flat wages, three asset bubbles, an opioid holocaust, and a botched pandemic response have convinced them the neoliberal era is over. They hear the funeral bells.

On the other side, the stage lights are still up. Its avatar is Stephen Colbert, frozen in the belief that the only thing wrong with America is that it contains people who don’t watch Stephen Colbert. Every populist tremor gets the same four-step routine: smirk, fact-check, musical number, lecture. The audience left the theater years ago; Colbert thinks they’re just in the lobby buying MAGA hats.

Australia is following the script line for line. No single domestic outlet now reaches every voter bloc political parties need. Audiences have splintered into like-minded channels, dissolving any “national conversation.” The split is no longer left versus right; it is humility versus hubris, those who recognize neo-liberalism’s sunset and those still waiting for the laugh track that never comes.

🤝 Engagement breeds understanding, not indoctrination.
Banning student contact out of fear isn’t safeguarding democracy it’s infantilising it. 🎓 If Bang Xiao thinks young Australians can’t handle a plane ticket, maybe he should spend less time warning about brainwashing and more time trusting the brains in the first place.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-23/youth-students-uni-exchange-china-strategy-australia/105559530

🇺🇸 The Heir: Donald Trump’s Second-Term Agenda

America isn’t just confronting China. It’s confronting Canada too.
A new nationalist White House sees Ottawa not as a partner, but as a problem.

💸 Up to 100% tariffs on over C$400 billion in Canadian exports
🕵️‍♂️ National security probes into Canadian lumber, copper, pharma, and dairy
📬 Threat letters sent to more than 150 countries warning against Canadian transshipment
🧭 Arctic pressure targeting shipping lanes, lithium, and rare earths
📉 Accusations of currency manipulation and threats to suspend USMCA protections

Trump’s message:

“You’re either with us, or you’re in the way.”

🇨🇦 The Spare: Mark Carney’s Quiet Rebellion

Enter Carney, economist, central banker, and aspiring prime minister.
He’s urbane, globalist, everything Trump is not.
And he’s ready to stop being the junior partner.

🧠 Calls for a post-dollar, multipolar financial system
🛢️ Push to reduce reliance on U.S. refineries for Canadian energy exports
🧬 Strategic shift toward aligning with the EU, UK, and Asia on climate and tech
📈 Moves to reprice the Canadian dollar through independent capital flows
🏛️ Proposal for a sovereign wealth fund modeled on Norway’s structure

Carney’s message:

“If Washington no longer shares our values, we’ll find those who do.”

🧬 The Royal Fight, North American Edition

👑 The Heir: Bombastic, born to rule, seeking loyalty through dominance
🩸 The Spare: Strategic, soft-spoken, increasingly unwilling to obey

Like William and Harry, one holds the crown and all the cards the other won’t go down without a fight.

📅 What Comes Next

🗓️ 2025
U.S. tariffs pressure Canadian defense spending. Arctic patrols are cancelled.

🗓️ 2026
Carney wins. Washington retaliates. Canadian lithium, autos, and pharma face new restrictions.

🗓️ 2027
U.S. “humanitarian patrols” begin in Canadian Arctic waters. Ottawa’s economy buckles. A quiet “Shared Sovereignty” pact is signed.