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> "should our cities be solarpunk or cyberpunk?" That's such a frustrating false equivalence, and so is the idea that solarpunk is "punk" because its opposing
by apocolyps6 5y ago
> "should our cities be solarpunk or cyberpunk?"
That's such a frustrating false equivalence, and so is the idea that solarpunk is "punk" because its opposing cyberpunk. Cyberpunk was never aspirational, its a dystopian genre. There is aspirational near-future sci-fi, its just not cyberpunk). Its like asking if we would prefer to live in the post-apocalyptic wasteland from Mad Max or in the future utopia of Star Trek.
- La1n 5y agoI think the implied meaning of that question is that we are heading towards "cyberpunk" and we should not want to live in a dystopia.