{"id":99667,"date":"2026-04-17T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99667"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:07:22","slug":"the-chronicles-of-riddick-a-treatise-on-political-machinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/04\/17\/the-chronicles-of-riddick-a-treatise-on-political-machinery\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Chronicles of Riddick<\/em>: a Treatise on Political Machinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bSa7Xt2b15w?si=HJX_6fn-C8VTi2dl\" 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 28 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>The Chronicles of Riddick<\/em> probably isn&#8217;t on anyone&#8217;s &#8220;top 10 science fiction&#8221; list, but it&#8217;s a remarkably astute study of how ideologies lead to systems, and how those systems co-opt people within them. <\/p>\n<p>And of course it has a great cast that seems to have had fun with their roles. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:04 Perception of Enemies<br \/>\n03:12 The Underverse<br \/>\n04:59 Plotting and Scheming<br \/>\n07:47 Superposition<br \/>\n08:20 Institutional Inertia<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 28 Nov 2025 The Chronicles of Riddick probably isn&#8217;t on anyone&#8217;s &#8220;top 10 science fiction&#8221; list, but it&#8217;s a remarkably astute study of how ideologies lead to systems, and how those systems co-opt people within them. And of course it has a great cast that seems to have had fun with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[1593,122,85],"class_list":["post-99667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-religion","tag-feralhistorian","tag-movies","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pVx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99667","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=99667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101931,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99667\/revisions\/101931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}