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  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Well, on one hand we have neoliberalism so profoundly and throughly surrounding us, that most of the stories we have ultimatley revolve around preserving the status quo and stopping any change. Any change is then shown as a bad thing, as evil and something that evil people do. And the funny thing is this approach not only serves capital as a propaganda tool, but also as a profit making one - if nothing ever changes you can continue milking the franchise with more and more empty content.

    A lot of scifi also touches on action thropes, that are sometimes good in their origins, but because they must exist within the above mentioned neoliberal substrate, these thropes need to be changed and adapted to fit to the general ideology. Inevitably this leads to very fascistic things. And then we even have stuff like Warhammer, where the sort of good guys, or the ones that people end up identifying with are outright evil... but you see, because the characters are actually good and fighting chaos or whatever, this somehow erases the system that they live in. The surrounding world is never examined, only seen as a setting, as a background into which all these individuals do their isolated individual stuff.