Elijah OneHot take: post-apocalyptic fiction is so popular because people desperately want to live lives that aren't yoked by capitalism, but are unable to even conceive of such a thing happening without the world ending first
garfield@ELJ1 It's! Easier! To! Imagine! The! End! Of! The! World! Than! The! End! Of! Capitalism!
@garfiald
Deadass, if there was one book I could force everyone in America to read at age 14, it would be Capitalist Realism
Deadass, if there was one book I could force everyone in America to read at age 14, it would be Capitalist Realism
Antanicus@ELJ1
On a related note: cyberpunk still feels fresh after 30+ years because we've been locked in the same neoliberal bubble since Reagan
On a related note: cyberpunk still feels fresh after 30+ years because we've been locked in the same neoliberal bubble since Reagan
Jeena@ELJ1
I have a tshirt on me right now which could basically be the header piture of your toot.
I have a tshirt on me right now which could basically be the header piture of your toot.
@jeena
GOD FUCK YEAH
GOD FUCK YEAH
Plants and Leftism@ELJ1 even hotter take: post-apocalyptic fiction is so popular because it's the "when government does things it's socialism" meme taken to it's natural conclusion, a society where trust is impossible and doing things as a group means you will eventually become evil to survive.
Shekhinah
MagicBoson@ELJ1 Incomplete. Post-apocalyptic fiction implies that nothing but sheer, animal survival matters. Capitalism falls by the wayside, but so do social mores, political systems, philosophy and anything else that we find complex. It's a regression to a mentally simple life: kill or be killed.
Sᴛ. Sᴜɴɴʏ☀️Cʀɪᴛᴛᴇʀ斎This echoes the recent Methods Devour Themselves episode by Rev Left Radio, if you haven't listened yet check it out. Fiction under ImperialistCapitalism in a very deep but accessible way with many perspectives.
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Twink Simulator, Extraordinare@ELJ1 because the world has to end first. The system and the systems that sustain it must collapse and when they do, everything else will be brought down with them. And then together we build something better and new.
@ELJ1 we can't continue to stop short of destruction out of fear.
🇪🇷Götterdämmerung@ELJ1 Also, writers like Todd Mitchell says the rise of post-apocalyptic genre in YA novels is a response to a serious social anxiety. Readers know at an unconscious level that we are screwing the pooch (pollution, over-consumption, etc), leading to climate change, greater social inequality and resulting civil unrest. Such readers are not as invested in the status quo, and angry that they're inheriting a giant pile of shit on a platter.
The Armchair of Doom@ELJ1 Y'all overestimate capitalism.