I watched Star Wars literally dozens of times as a kid in the 1970s, and, even now, can’t resist a good dystopian sci fi series. I just finished watching Tribes of Europa on Netflix. Many thoughts. I was most definitely hooked, it’s dark, post-apocalyptic, and beautifully produced. I’m wrestling with the idea that Europe regresses to “tribes,” that somehow there was an ideal of integral European civilization that was lost, that the EU might have been the high point of modern attainment somehow. I don’t want to give anything away, spoiler-wise, but there are some Orientalist vibes as well that leave me a bit uneasy. At the same time, the scenario of radically different collective pathways opening up in the absence of a coherent, technologically driven mass civilization is very interesting. Anyone else seen it yet? Here’s the trailer.
