I rewatched The Martian and totally forgot how optimistic this movie is about technology, America, and international relations 
when this movie came out in 2015 my little liberal ass loved it. i still believed in a future.
we dont even have bazinga mars nerds anymore just different flavors of “i wont eat the bugs” all clawing at each other to climb out of a pit rapidly filling with water
xi i will scrub toilets please give me a K visa 
Imagine thinking the US isn’t obsessed with world domination and could peacefully coexist with a rival foreign power.
Even when the book was written in 2011, Obama was already pivoting towards alignment against China before the tacky reality-show host billionaire reared his ugly mug in political theatre. There really was no excuse. But I guess we all want to dream…