The techbrocalypse is a woefully underexplored dystopian future setting
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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Handmaidens tale comes close tho
I'm throwing Starship Troopers in the ring
i can think of a few stories...
Idiocracy?
Not even!!!!! Nobody ever imagined such a horrible scenario
The last, uhh, 24 years keep reminding me of this line by Yeats:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Transmetropolitan nails this.
Unfortunately for us as a civilization, the series has aged quite well.
My God, how I miss Warren Ellis.
Neither the Beast nor the Smiler are ignorant, conspiracy theorists, or foreign assets though (grifters and sex criminals, most definitely, I'll give you that, especially the Smiler, but most of the City's population seems to fit in those categories too, so in that sense they do represent their electorate).
They're both quite competent and intelligent psychopaths.
Now, if we're talking about the Republican Party Reservation and its associated TV show, or the vat-grown VP...
THIS. Where is the Transmetropolitan streaming series? The time has never been more right.
I feel like altered carbon might be on the right path, possibly blade runner as well.
Tom Clancy may yet surprise you
Season 4 of Lexx had all that and aliens.
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
This movie is eerily accurate despite being scathing satire. There’s more than a hint of truth in it. More like a mountain.
Gotta protect those bodily fluids boiz!
Wait until you take your first road trip through Ameristan.
Thats because nobody wants to read trash like that.
Sure, some did. But in those novels the same individuals were actually pretty smart.
That’s the difference.
There's a big smart evil guy somewhere puppeting all these morons, right? Please god tell me there's one smart guy doing all of this. It can't be idiots the entire chain of command.
The amount of sexual predators Epstein's closest friend have nominated to position of power is incredible,
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