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For what it’s worth, much of the cyberpunk skeleton is in place - good and bad - but it’s not clearly visible from a thematic perspective, because human life is

by jprete 3y ago

For what it’s worth, much of the cyberpunk skeleton is in place - good and bad - but it’s not clearly visible from a thematic perspective, because human life isn’t as cheap as in genuine cyberpunk environments. We’re also, frankly, moving towards larger levels of human commoditization. Cyberpunk might make people disposable but it doesn’t make them totally irrelevant, certainly not the way the modern world does, because otherwise the story doesn’t have main characters anymore.

bitwize 3y ago
And yet social media is giving people a profound sense of entitlement that comes from believing you're the main character of some story -- colloquially called "main character syndrome". Maybe that just speeds the personal commoditization? (Syndrome (Incredibles) voice) "When everyone's the main character... no one will be."