Fiction has become a medium for writers and actors to treat their audience as morally inferior dolts in need of re-education. 

This week’s episode of Doctor Who was an excellent example.  

The Doctor and her companions land on a possible future in which the plante has been destroyed by food shortages, mass migration, war, and because — she claims — we “ignored every scientist on Earth.”  

The big scary monsters who evolved from the humans left behind are subtly called ‘The Dregs’… and just in case you missed all that, there is a montage of the Earth being destroyed, and a tedious monologue urging us to change to...