REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (07/08/83)
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC> A few minutes ago I tuned in on the middle of a terrific program on channel 60 (KCSM, San Mateo;PBS/teleclasses) -- I was wondering if anybody else saw it or knew more about it. The credits at the end said it was produced by Miami-Dade Community College, copyright 1978. I didn't recognize any of the actors or other contributors. The program when I tuned in was about myths in history: including the New World myth that America was a re-enactment of the Garden of Eden except this time it'd come out with a happy ending. It mentionned the myth of Aryan supremecy and the myth of Communism. It then moved on to the myths of the space age: (1) Flying saucers are friendly people watching over us, ready to intervene to save us if we start to destroy ourselves; (2) Flying saucers are enemy people who will exterminate us and take over our planet; (3) There's no evidence for live elsewhere than on Earth, and in fact we may be the only intelligent life anywhere in the Milky Way galaxy, thus our expansion through this galaxy will be an important event in the history of the whole galaxy; (4) Biological organisms faced with extinction sometimes evolve to survive the crisis, and we now (faced with threats of nuclear war and other disasters) are starting to adapt to space and populate space to survive these threats. I thought it was highly fascinating. Anybody else remember seeing it? Anybody know when it'll be shown again? (I don't have a TV log.)