Star Trek as a doctoral thesis

Newsvine - Star Trek as a doctoral thesis I was in an Introduction to Anthropology class, team taught by David Hicks (Timor) and William Arens (Sudan, author of "The Man Eating Myth") at Stony Brook University, and one of the texts was "the American Dimension Cultural Myths and Social Realities" (by Susan P. Montague and W. Arens c) 1976 Alfred Pub.). In Part 1: "Symbolic Analysis of Cultural Phenomena" after W. Arens' "Professional Football: An American Symbol and Ritual" was the essay, "A Structuralist Appreciation of "Star Trek"" by Peter J. Claus. It concludes: "Myth and "Star Trek" provide a model of real society in which the conflicts of life can be reasonably resolved precisely by adhering to values transcending nature, those same values that are so frail and elusive in the factual world." It seems like the right thing to do, to do the right thing.