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by parineum 474 days ago
We've not seen down that road. Fiction isn't reality. Fiction's problems are imagined and exaggerated to give the hero something to overcome.

Dystopian fiction doesn't have a great track record for prediction.

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Moreover, the vast majority of the callbacks to cyberpunk-- both aspirational and critical-- somehow miss that the entire aesthetic was a response to Reaganomics! Moreover, and somewhat ironically, Reagan was the last US president that used the Heritage Foundation's publications as his policy template.

I wonder what great aesthetic and fiction we'll get from Trumpism?