Well, if we had risen up against the rich, instead of letting them rule the world at least the last image would have been avoided.
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(1953) The War of the Worlds
(1966) Fahrenheit 451
(1973) Soylent Green
(1984) 1984
(1999) Matrix
(2004) Children of Men
(2012) The Hunger Games
I guess every decade has its dystopic fiction
Hmm, I think you've got a mistake in there bud. /s
It's a fair joke.
Elder millennial here. I knew I was in an earth destroying dystopia the entire time.
Educated people saw the 2020 vision as far back as 1950s. They warned us many times, but we never listened.
"we"
You mean the rich and powerful who could've solved the systemic environmental issues didn't, who got it told directly all the time. Who could've done something against Exxon and the others. Don't lump the masses together with such assholes.
There /is/ a large portion of the masses who are perfectly aligned with the goals of the rich and powerful and are happy to shit on their own doorstep for even a moment's convenience
I mean 'we' as everyone collectively, as society. It's just manner of speaking. I wasn't even alive for most of the time frame mentioned, so I'm perfectly aware not everyone was actually able to 'listen' to the warnings.
Understandable, but ysk that it is an illusion. You always think the past was better than it is now.
i mean, this mostly applies to american mindset. "work hard" is a function of progress; in the absence of progress, it stops making sense. and people who only knew how to work hard their entire life suddenly see that way of life ending.
there's a lot of americans who think that way. "work hard and you can make it". nah
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Terminator (1984), Terminator 2 (1991), and The Matrix (1999) have entered the chat...
The third, believe it or not, windows 95 desktop background.
Don’t forget Mad Max
Mad Marx
Soylent Green. Alphaville. Logan's Run. A Clockwork Orange.
Planet of the Apes.
Oh man. Soylent Green is pretty fucking close to what we're living right now.
- Climate change
- Housing being out of reach for working people who are now living in staircases and in the streets
- Women losing their rights and becoming "furniture"
I hate every chimp I see, from chimpan-a to shimpan-z
Rock me Dr. Zaius!
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Lest we forget Blade Runner (1982)
Blade Runner still had civilization. I’m not sure we’ll be that lucky.
Gad civilization... in the far flung future of 2019! 😉
Deckard missed Covid!
True Names (1981), Software (1982), Neuromancer (1984), Hardwired (1986), Wetware (1988)
Cyberpunk is lowlife and high tech. It's completely dystopian. The early 1980s was the height of the Cold War with Reagan in power. People were not optimistic about the future in the 1980s, they were just hoping that it wouldn't end in a nuclear war.
Terminator: "War is inevitable."
Terminator 2: "Actually, maybe not."
Terminator 3: "Oh yeah, never mind, there it is."
Me putting the 3rd in to rewatch if it was that bad:
Terminator: Arnie is the bad guy
Terminator 2: no wait, the first one made him a huge star so he's the hero now!
Terminator 3: Quick, let's squeeze one last one out before he becomes The Governator in a few months!
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The 2000's future is so unsettling.
I was listening to that old song called Dust in the Wind by Kansas and there's that line that goes nothing lasts forever but the Earth and Sky, and I thought, those lucky bastards thinking that the Earth and sky would last forever, what a comfort that would be. I can deal with the natural inevitability of death, but knowing that the Earth will die because we're killing it really fucks me up.
ThEarth will be fine. Humans, not so much.
I guess there’s some solace or hope to be found in the fact that all the previous predictions weren’t accurate?
That last example is from the original Fallout game, which came out in the late 90s, not the 2020s.
"We can take shelter from the flesh-eating mutants inside the data center!"
gets turned into hamburger by the automated turrets protecting the data center
Sounds basically like an average run of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, lol.
If Project Zomboid would let me build a gigantic mobile zombie murder base like you can in CDDA, I would be so happy.
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lol ignoring the entire Cold War
Finally, all the time in the world to read my books.
I mean the rich are building bunkers so the bottom Fallout 1 death screen is appropriate if you know the lore of the vaults/bunkers.
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