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Everyone thinks they’ll be Neo, when really they’ll be bystander #5 that gets turned into an agent just to shoot at him once and miss.
People are so deeply entrenched in consumerism that if you tell them that capitalism is killing our own home (a well known fact by now) they will screech at you that communism does not work.
Remember kids, there are only two systems and if you say there aren’t you’re a communist!
People are sadly afraid of change or the ‘unknow’ so it is easy do demonise it.
I think that fear is more of based in American propaganda of Communist countries than consumerism.
It is a connection of both. My parents have lived in the DDR (eastern german). You know what i always hear? “Ohh we had so little”. They also fondly talk of the times they got presents from the west.
No, they do not talk about how they did not have free speech (they did not). No, they don’t talk about how you could not trust your neithbours,as they could be from the ‘Staatssicherheit’ (Secret Police) They rarely talk about they fact they were not allowed to cross the border, which they now can do without thinking about it. It always the lack of consumer goods that gets them talking.
And i noticed this about my self too. Always consuming. Food, drinks, information, entertainment… The fear of losing that chance at consumption whenever you feel like it, seems huge.
Thanks for the perspective!
Well, I would argue, that communism is authoritarian by nature, I would prefer socialism, but fuck it, at this point, I would prefer anything to the current shitshow In most countries.
I… I dont jniw where to start correcting you, but I’m 100% with you on the last bit.
Why did they make the warning sound and look so cool, then? Clearly nothing bad ever looks and sounds cool! Checkmate, atheists!!
They made the people kicked out of and fighting against this shit look-
watches you try to do the plot of ‘snow crash’
burns every copy of the ‘firefall’ books.
Don’t forgot nuking a megacorp is actually super cool
I wish it was easy to get a hold of nukes IRL so we could play nuclear terrorists for once
Why, hello there, mr FBI agent. No, I’m not 'muric- muffled screams
Yes. Dead corpos are no sin.
Idk if cyberpunk media is really about “should”
