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I've only just started watching, but it would not surprise me if the show piqued the interest of other FDR listeners. To wit: Has anyone else watched this? It's on Netflix in Canada & the US.

About 80% or more of the people here who do know of the plot in a fair, thorough sense of a Canadian series called Continuum (which I am guessing probably not that many, its a series on Netflix) will probably not agree with the show. It's too easy to cop out and lump it in with I suppose Elysium or Avatar (Which I would defend avatar but that is a whole other story so not now thank you). The Canadians were smart with this one, they do not really go to great lengths to portray a good guy in the series. It is laid out raw and nasty for the whole 3 seasons and only builds on the truth towards the end. It focuses on the debate between crypto-currency, transhumanism, anarcho-capitalism, corporatism, socialist and marxist revolution, agorism, and debates over civil rights related to. . .the types of issues Chomsky focuses on, more than any TV series or movie I've ever seen. To me the show is a gritty critique on power relations and the social psychology of hierarchy and technology and capitalism. The show doesn't make power positions look good at all. I've really only seen one other sci-fi that did this as a series and that is Farscape. But Farscape is very fantastical and fictional, whereas this is set relatively contemporary. This show is not just a marxist or progressive critique on corporate power. It is a critique of social manipulation, propaganda, demagoguery, and behaviorism. It does focus on the militarization of police, private defense, security technology, espionage, surveillance state, ...a very chilling critique of the war on terror, a smarter, accurate approach to 'alex jones' subjects. Its an accurate critique on what you might call crypto-fascist or subtle tendacies towards totalitarianism. Honestly, if the show were just a bit darker, and deeper, if it had a touch of the Coen brothers or the style of Gattaca and Blade Runner (sadly even the Matrix didn't quite achieve the depth and cerebral somberness of Blade Runner)....if this show could continue on for like 10 seasons and not tip to far in favor of the demagoguery of the revolutionaries and their techno-Bolshevism or the pro-corporate zuckerburg outcome... to serve as a cautionary tale of how dangerous social ideologies in themselves are. I also consider the show to be a scathing critique of Rand's objectivism, overwhelmingly. Behind this show is another underlying concept that isn't stated, but its implied - the collective appeal to expertise, i.e., Positivism and its positive reactionary corollary of objective truth. http://anarchism.pageabode.com/sidewinder/science-ideology-beyond-positivist-versus-relativist-antimony