{"id":98586,"date":"2026-02-20T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98586"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:30:47","slug":"sci-fi-satire-and-the-post-wwii-mythos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/sci-fi-satire-and-the-post-wwii-mythos\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi, Satire, and the Post-WWII Mythos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H52OedcjRFA?si=zA6mz6joutRlLuNC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 17 Oct 2025<\/p>\n<p>The caricature of fascism as the arch-evil, born in WWII propaganda and endlessly re-imagined in popular entertainment ever since, has served both as an inoculation against that particular brand of tyranny and blinders to many others. Is it still relevant? Or has it become one of our culture&#8217;s foundational archetypes that will live on for centuries disconnected from its roots? Let&#8217;s explore a bunch of facets and ask some odd, sometimes difficult questions along the way. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n03:02 Myth of Singular Evil<br \/>\n06:06 Andor and Now<br \/>\n09:18 Fading Narratives<br \/>\n12:01 Iron Sky<br \/>\n16:21 What Comes Next?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\nStill plugging <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 also on Kobo<br \/>\nkobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/ninti-s-gate?sId=f30f9d90-907a-449a-aeab-7b25215297f1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 17 Oct 2025 The caricature of fascism as the arch-evil, born in WWII propaganda and endlessly re-imagined in popular entertainment ever since, has served both as an inoculation against that particular brand of tyranny and blinders to many others. Is it still relevant? Or has it become one of our culture&#8217;s foundational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,53],"tags":[457,1593,122,85,193],"class_list":["post-98586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-politics","tag-fascism","tag-feralhistorian","tag-movies","tag-sf","tag-starwars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pE6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100966,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98586\/revisions\/100966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}