I wonder if part of TOS's difficulty with the subject is that it's hard to reconcile a phenomenon like Nazism with the rather single-minded optimism that the show embraces? There's a sort of ideological imperative, then, to see things like Nazism as aberrations rather than as aspects of a deep-seated human problem. Certainly TOS spends plenty of time talking about human aggressiveness, but it tends to see it as biological, as an impulse that can be controlled, rather than as something that is entwined with and can be exacerbated by social and political arrangements.
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I wonder if part of TOS's difficulty with the subject is that it's hard to reconcile a phenomenon like Nazism with the rather single-minded optimism that the show embraces? There's a sort of ideological imperative, then, to see things like Nazism as aberrations rather than as aspects of a deep-seated human problem. Certainly TOS spends plenty of time talking about human aggressiveness, but it tends to see it as biological, as an impulse that can be controlled, rather than as something that is entwined with and can be exacerbated by social and political arrangements.