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minus-square🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 days agocyberpunk as a genre is fundamentally a critique of capitalism to quote William Gibson talking about Ronald Reagan, “His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.”
minus-square🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days agoi guess i could be considered something of a scholar of the genre myself since i run https://cyberpunk.lol/ and https://cyberpunk.gay/ lmao
minus-squareZgierwoj@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoYes, I am aware, specifically a satire of it, no?
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days ago“but fighting the oligarchs would be hard, how is it a solution?” Bro, you’re being your own satire.
minus-squareZgierwoj@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 days agoAlright bud, you got me, I think fiction specifically designed as dystopian with well explained mechanisms of how it resists change gets to be more pessimistic than reality
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoYou can just admit you had a shit take it’s okay
cyberpunk as a genre is fundamentally a critique of capitalism
to quote William Gibson talking about Ronald Reagan,
i guess i could be considered something of a scholar of the genre myself since i run https://cyberpunk.lol/ and https://cyberpunk.gay/ lmao
Yes, I am aware, specifically a satire of it, no?
“but fighting the oligarchs would be hard, how is it a solution?”
Bro, you’re being your own satire.
Alright bud, you got me, I think fiction specifically designed as dystopian with well explained mechanisms of how it resists change gets to be more pessimistic than reality
You can just admit you had a shit take it’s okay