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The Peace Dividend: Dystopia Now
- angersock 12y agoAuthor makes a good statement: we need to portray more dystopias as being solved by society and not individiuals. Perhaps the genius of Gibson's work was that, honestly, it showed the individual as ineffective at enacting massive change, as living in a world full of lurching monstrosities so large and alien that no one person could hope to make a meaningful difference--and yet the characters struggle all the same. It's depressing as fuck, but gets one into the correct headspace for today. The big letdown comes, I think, when one realizes that so much of today's society (from a strictly American bias) is so carefully fragmented, pandered, and incapable of constructive introspection that there is simply no hope that things will ever get better unless they get a lot, lot worse.