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   Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:57:02 JST Sexy Moon

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   @tedu young people today have lost the real meaning of cyberpunk
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 06:00:45 JST Sexy Moon

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     @crunklord420 @tedu this isn't really my knowledge area but a book could use hypercapitalist society as a setting and not really get super in depth about the actual poluitics
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     CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 06:00:46 JST CrunkLord420

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     @Moon @tedu everyone talking about how cyberpunk is supposed to be a critique of capitalism or whatever are always the biggest globohomo corpo bootlickers.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 06:08:04 JST iced depresso

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     @crunklord420 @tedu @Moon mike pondsmith the prophet.
     
     although a lot of cyberpunk was probably derived from the same stuff alex jones found it from
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     CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 06:08:05 JST CrunkLord420

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     @Moon @tedu you're right, they don't. Don't tell anyone but cyberpunk books like Snowcrash and Neuromancer are pulp fiction, not philosophy. They're mostly just aesthetic, not even that good as a story.
     
     Cyberpunk 2020 had more politics in it than those books.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 06:14:40 JST lainy

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     @Moon @crunklord420 @tedu 99.9999999% of novels have nonsensical economics, whatever it is.
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     @crunklord420 @tedu @Moon William Gibson became such an insufferable cunt in the post-gamergate timeline too.
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     PunishedD (punishedd@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 08:18:51 JST PunishedD

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     @crunklord420 @Moon @tedu If there's a unifying warning throughout cyberpunk, it's warning against dehumanizing forces. It does this by contrasting the meat with the net; the novelty is when they mix. "But late stage capitalism dehumanizes its victims!" Maybe, but so does early stage communism. All systems that depend on quantification trend towards commoditization, whether that's a corporation put a price on everything or a government arranging "human resources" into its 5 year plan.
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