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We've not seen down that road. Fiction isn't reality. Fiction's problems are imagined and exaggerated to give the hero something to overcome. Dystopian fiction
by parineum 2y ago
We've not seen down that road. Fiction isn't reality. Fiction's problems are imagined and exaggerated to give the hero something to overcome.
Dystopian fiction doesn't have a great track record for prediction.
- quadhome 2y agoMoreover, the vast majority of the callbacks to cyberpunk-- both aspirational and critical-- somehow miss that the entire aesthetic was a response to Reaganomics! Moreover, and somewhat ironically, Reagan was the last US president that used the Heritage Foundation's publications as his policy template. I wonder what great aesthetic and fiction we'll get from Trumpism?