DJ, I'm thinking of Farscape here, and other SciFi shows that take modern problems and project them into a future or other worlds where those problems are seen in a different context. In SciFi, materialism and/or provincialism are sometimes viewed as the catalyst of decline in civilizations. Spirituality is also portrayed in more complex ways.
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