Science-fiction violence encodes rage at unfulfilled collective fantasies.

Evidence

Civilization, always already - historically - racially charged, may be seen accordingly as the undertaking to render violence impotent, as Keane points out, to soften its blow and lessen its impact. It is intended, in short, to vaporize violence, to render its traces virtual. The civilizing process (mission) is considered thus as the process of gradually increasing perfection (progress), of turning uncivil into civil states, of moving in the terms of (European) modernity (Hobbes through Kant) from barbarism, savagery, roughness, vulgarity or the state of nature into civilized, genteel, decent, in short, civil states. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 234 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political violence arises from frustration over unmet value expectations; Civilization is the project of rendering violence invisible and virtual — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 234; Collective violence requires dehumanizing victims into abstract categories

Broader Connections

• Political violence arises from frustration over unmet value expectations #complicates (0.82)
• Civilization is the project of rendering violence invisible and virtual #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 234
• Collective violence requires dehumanizing victims into abstract categories #complicates (0.72)