I remember when films about the future were bright, and hopeful. Over the last 30 years certainly after "Blade Runner" it became dystopian hells on greased wheels.
We can't even imagine a hopeful future now.
It must be ugly to be a kid, and see that most the projections for your future life are so rough hopeless, and deadly.
This will affect what coming authors will publish what future entertainment will sound, and look like. This with every entertainment dream about dark hells of poverty injustice, and despair. I don't think the "Infotainment War Rape Lies Oppression, and Despoiling the Earth Complex" has thought this all the way through.
Dystopian murder rape cannibal zombie alien films make money, and drives out everything else. "Death Race 5000 AD!" It's a parody of itself now. I'd actually like to see a drama set in a turn of the 22nd century that didn't involve mutant white people vast mind controlled slave farms evil A.I. robot wars, and hyper-rich class enemies fucking in orbit watching everyone suffer below them for kicks.
Btw I just gave the plot of at least 4 major, and 500 indie science fiction movies of the last several years there.
See even I can't imagine such a drama that didn't involve horror, and despair. Is our future really 'that' certain to be 'that' awful for 'everyone' except .0001% of the 1%? Then we need to finally have that Revolution against our owners.
I Want my damned Future Back!
2 comments:
Things might get bright & hopeful again, but only after a rather long dark age and a huge population crash. Well before then the current ruling class will get it in the neck. That’s what reliably happens to the ruling class of a civilization that fucked up.
Personally, I would prefer not to reincarnate for at least 500 years.
Z
500 sounds about right.
On the other hand there are wild cards that change things. Sometimes for the worse like now, and even more rare for the better.
The current woman's revolt against the guy tradition of assault, and rape is starting to have an effect politically culturally. This might be an unforeseen movement for radical change that might moderate the grand fall into a soft landing.
By the look of it I don't think it's going away. At first because of it's witch hunt aspects like many commie culture perverts. I feared it was the cutting edge of an extermination. Now it seems to be diversifying into more constructive actions,...we'll see.
A soft landing from our American Imperial Era is much preferable to the "Mad Max" ending that was the looming over us.
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