Comment on Who needs stars in a boring dystopia?
Wogi@lemmy.world 1 year agoOr cyberpunk. Or watched Blade Runner.
Sky holograms are pretty common in corpo dystopia fiction. And maybe future non fiction. Jesus
I mean, we have some clear aspects of what was feared. I think the closest country currently is South Korea, given how powerful the corporations are there.
It goes to the point where the main thing young people work towards is the Samsung Aptitude Test, there are whole cities that basically just belong to Samsung. From the factory to the supermarkets where the factory workers shop to the flats the workers live in and spend their time off using Samsung devices.
So company towns that haven’t started issuing scrip yet. My country tried that for a while. It ended in literal class warfare.
I’m curious what country, I want to learn up on some history.
United States. Look into Appalachian coal miner union history. The company towns were part of the story but not the whole of the exploitation of the workers. The Battle of Blair Mountain is the most famous incident. Also the music involved fucking slaps.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The problem with cyberpunk fiction is that some people have no media literacy and a lot of money and decide their company should do things from their favorite stories.
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 1 year ago
I keep laughing when Palanthir comes up. Like, why name your surveillance company after these things that were used for bad in the stories.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
When i learned that there is an actual real life food company that’s called “soylent” i just felt like going to bed and skipping the next couple days, like what the fuck
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 year ago
You’re telling me that in 2013 somebody made a company with the same name as a fictional company in 1966 novel Make Room Make Room! about overcrowded earth and the 1977 movie Soylent Green wherein they FEED PEOPLE TO OTHER PEOPLE AND LIE ABOUT IT?
That’s pretty awful. I feel like that’s the absolute bottom of the barrel desperation for exposure. Why didn’t they just call it LentSoya or something?
InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lack of media literacy is becoming a huge problem for society. People either think fiction is reality or just literally don’t understand satire, parody, and cautionary tales.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
The Torment Nexus meme is too real
Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My problem is that it’s too real to enjoy