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I'll also add in terms of the concerns of cliches, I mean the ethics and ideas in Cyberpunk have 40 years of discussion and mainstreaming now which means many p
by Grimm1 6y ago
I'll also add in terms of the concerns of cliches, I mean the ethics and ideas in Cyberpunk have 40 years of discussion and mainstreaming now which means many people will wear the ideas of cyberpunk as an aesthetic and really not intern or create works that embody the ideology. The thing is this happens with every set of ideas and I refer back to this post as a good exploration of why
"https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths" https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths"
Unfortunately this means that if you do have a more vested interest in works that respect and extend classical cyber punk thoughts you have to work a little harder to separate wheat from chaff.
A recent example of this is Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 that revives characters and art from earlier more idealistic works that are much more in line with the ethos and work hard to make points about sociopolitical events and where they could lead us, but this iteration really falls short, in my opinion, of making any of it's own strong points. Instead they rely on the flashy tech, scenary and tropes we've come to be familiar with in Cyberpunk. Not to say they didn't try though but they couldn't carry it like previous writers in the series.