#Dystopia

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ephemeralhorror

why are cyberpunk tabletop things so obsessed with decency and personhood being tied to how many surgeries you haven’t had

ephemeralhorror

“if you have a prosthetic it takes out a part of your soul” like thanks shadowrun

rlyehtaxidermist

in early cyberpunk, the point was more along the lines of “if we integrate technology into our bodies we risk becoming dependent upon the people and institutions who control that technology, who would then use that to enrich themselves at our expense”

unfortunately that was too anti-corporate for American mainstream culture so as cyberpunk moved out of its niche it became “uhhh it eats your soul I guess”

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farrells

[literature meme] • 1/2 genres

A dystopia is a community or society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Dystopian societies appear in many sub-genres of fiction and are often used to draw attention to real-world issues regarding society, environment, politics, economics, religion, psychology, ethics, science, and/or technology.

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