A lot of the love for cyberpunk I think comes the idea of escaping the system. Cyberpunk mirrors our current dystopia but the hero in cyberpunk is always someone who has escaped that system. So when you're stuck in a bullshit in a bullshit capitalist country is a really cool way to imagine you can just be outside of it, every one knows the system will be there but they don't have to be part of it.
Honestly I think a lot of cyberpunk fans are ready for leftest conversion, they already know the system is corrupt as fuck and they think the only way to live is to escape it.
While the genre existed before William Gibson, and a lot of its authors are leftists, it's always disappointed me that Gibson himself, the most well-known cyberpunk author, ended up just being an unremarkable shitlib. How can you write books that are basically critiques of capitalist alienation and commodification and then not be anti-capitalist?
A lot of the love for cyberpunk I think comes the idea of escaping the system. Cyberpunk mirrors our current dystopia but the hero in cyberpunk is always someone who has escaped that system. So when you're stuck in a bullshit in a bullshit capitalist country is a really cool way to imagine you can just be outside of it, every one knows the system will be there but they don't have to be part of it.
Honestly I think a lot of cyberpunk fans are ready for leftest conversion, they already know the system is corrupt as fuck and they think the only way to live is to escape it.
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While the genre existed before William Gibson, and a lot of its authors are leftists, it's always disappointed me that Gibson himself, the most well-known cyberpunk author, ended up just being an unremarkable shitlib. How can you write books that are basically critiques of capitalist alienation and commodification and then not be anti-capitalist?