A Cyberpunk Future: Sacrificing Freedoms for Fantasy - Techno-cucks have doomed us all

[eldri]

In terms of world-building, cyberpunk is appealing in its dystopian aesthetics as well as foreshadowing the horrific potential of technology removing freedoms. However, the latter seems all forgotten in current media and replaced with a romantic ideal.

You see this in the heavily anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 as well as the arising clothing style of techwear. These forms of media are all used by people to engage in some sort of fantasy; however, under greater and greater scrutiny, this fantasy is terrifying and those that engage in it are actively allowing for the removal of freedoms by praising the real technology similar to that in cyberpunk.

Cyberpunk is inherently dystopian. You have big government and big corporations owning and ruling everything while little is trickled down to the common people, of which, aside from their ever growing population, live from paycheck to paycheck. FFS, you see this in the first gameplay footage from of Cyberpunk 2077 with the main character. So why do people want this?

As more and more people become enthralled by this genre, more and more of our basic freedoms will be stripped away as we become increasingly blinded by the very real technology seen in the techno-cuck's fantasy world.

 

[OhGoy]

is this a TSIC thread?

 

[Clones of Alex Jones]

Because Freedom hasn't just been taken out back and shot in the head like a red... it's corpse has started to go rotten AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE REALLY COOL SHIT YET!!!!!!!!!

give me some gibs, a gun, and architecture that isn't shit for my virtual power fantasy bitch!

 

[Rand /pol/]

For most people having cheap food and appliances and getting to live longer is more appealing than living in a shack farming potatoes, even if Big Brother watches them 24/7.

 

[The Shadow]

HACK THE PLANET MY LEET BROTHERS

Ahhh...that was lame. Cyberpunk is a little overbaked as this point, but yeah, think before you aug.

Cyberpunk I've noticed, tends to be very much an aesthetic. And a lot of times, thanks to Blade Runner mostly, it's just hard boiled 40s pulp with computers and nanomachines, son.

 

[eldri]

For most people having cheap food and appliances and getting to live longer is more appealing than living in a shack farming potatoes, even if Big Brother watches them 24/7.

But they will absolutely not live longer. Life gives power to people; however, the powers that be can't take that power away without genocide; therefore, the powers that be must increase their own life to increase their power over the people.

 

[spurger king]

People probably look at it as more of an aesthetic than the ancap hellscapes those places were originally written as, to be fair. The funny thing is that our actual technocratic overlords have adopted this very weird brave-new-world look where everything is brightly colored and rounded. It's gay and infantile IMO. If megacorps are going to rule us with impunity they should at least develop some fucking taste.

 

[millais]

No one actually wants to die of starvation in a post-apocalyptic scenario, but it's a very popular genre of fiction because the total collapse of society and authority, whether by zombies, nukes, or whatever, promises the instant obsolescence of all societal norms and thus grants the fantasizing individual more agency in the imagined setting than in their current reality.

I suspect it's somewhat similar appeal for the classic Gibson-style cyberpunk dystopia. With wide-scale dissemination of advanced technology acting as the disrupting factor instead of total societal collapse, the fantasizing individual can imagine himself having more agency than in real life. Without breaking suspension of disbelief, in cyberpunk dystopia the individual can easily acquire powerful weapons, high tech implants, advanced software, etc that can have a disproportionate affect on the world when applied properly. And the fact that it is inherently a dystopia presents ready made source of conflict in which the individual can practice and exert this newfound agency. While power is commonly concentrated in the all-powerful corporate overlords in these kinds of settings, the ubiquity and availability of advanced technology to the determined individual means that the anarchic fringe types can stand a fighting chance. The cyberpunk, after all, is certainly no carbon copy of Orwellian 1984, and the anarchic factor is one element that greatly differentiates the two genres.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

The proliferation of information technology is the single greatest thing to happen to human civilization and will bring unprecedented freedom, may google chop my dick off and turn me into a troon sexbot if I'm wrong.