Joss Whedon is a Leftist.\u00a0 Despite his recent fall from grace on account of saying and doing mean things to actors on set, he believes in the cause.\u00a0 All of his cinematic and television creations to some extent, are shaped by progressive concepts.\u00a0 So, it always seemed a very strange thing that he created Firefly.\u00a0 Based, he said, on a book about the battle of Gettysburg he imagined a universe where the elites defeated the freedom loving proles in an interplanetary civil war and these defeated forces maintained an outlaw existence at the edge of a distant new solar system among pirates and barbarians.<\/p>\n
In the cinematic finale of this universe, the elites in the \u201cAlliance\u201d send out an agent to eliminate the renegades that have some dangerous secrets about the government\u2019s experiments with controlling the behavior of the ordinary people.<\/p>\n
During one encounter the agent recites the title of this essay.<\/p>\n