Is Babylon 5 the most influential TV show of the past 25 years? (2021)

Re:Is Babylon 5 the most influential TV show of the past 25 ... by bigger_inside on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:57AM (#35354890)

to have a working cult of traditions, you have to invent them first. And to invent them, you have to destroy the traditions that were invented before, but are old enough to have evolved, sprawled, and gone out of control. The newly invented ones are much easily controllable.

Side reference, but of course historian Eric Hobsbawm is the central name here, who wrote "the invention of traditions" about how this happens.

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Re:Is Babylon 5 the most influential TV show of the past 25 ... by DoughnutHole on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:16AM (#35355504)

It's also easy enough to mythologise and claim you're going back to the real traditions of your society that have been erased by degeneracy - you have have to upend and destroy the social order in order go "back" to the traditions of an imagined past.

The Fascists of Italy were all about casting themselves as returning Italy to the glory of Ancient Rome, right down to the basic symbolism of the party.

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