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A Boring Dystopia
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Eh. It's a matter of perspective
You can look at a turd from a different angle and it will look like a brownie.
A comfortable home or segregationist suburban dystopia?
Family vacations or inefficient car based infrastructure fucking up the planet?
Fun hobbies or mindless consumerism being sold to you as a hobby?
Living to a ripe old age or being relegated to for profit nursing homes to count your dying days?
Which seems more apparent?
Well, it depends on your perspective, as you so rightly put it. You see something deplorable in each of those squares where others might see it differently.
We are absolutely living in a cyberpunk dystopia. This particular meme is poorly put together to represent that because it chooses to focus on judgement of how others live their lives or choose to enjoy said life rather than focus on the real and tangible injustices we face. It is elitist and "holier than thou".
Why do you see it this way?
Lack of dense affordable housing, inefficient transportation, empty consumerism, and grossly negligent yet expensive elder care are all examples of real and tangible injustices that Americans face.
Other real tangible injustices also exist, of course. And some of those other injustices may be more severe (homelessness, medical debt, declining life expectancy, unresponsive political systems). But the depicted injustices are real and present. They accordingly deserve to be criticized
Fair enough. I suppose I understand this meme to be a broader commentary about cyberpunk dystopia than specifically ridiculing someone's life style choices.
This meme is good example of how leftists are absolutely awful at branding
It doesn't matter how many brownie angles you look at it from its still a fuckin' turd
Segregationist. lol
Segregation in terms of wealth (these days)
but from what I've heard, suburbs in america became popular in the 50s because a lot of white people wanted to live in white-only places. (Will have to cite a source later)
They were actively redlined neighborhoods, often in sundown towns, and loans were given that excluded black people on the basis of their race (see also: the GI bill that excluded black veterans). Not to mention the black neighborhoods and economic centers within cities that were bulldozed and paved over with highways, especially highway interchanges, in order to facilitate this 'white flight' from the cities.
Imagine being so ignorant you've never heard of "white flight."
Imagine being so ignorant you've never heard of the VRC6 memory map controller.
I think I agree with /u/JoMiran@lemmy.ml
Your post is just invoking feeling in people who already hate this shit. Circlejerk material.
It's more meaningful to focus on things which are objectively bad, like rising suicide rates or lowering life expectancies.
I don't think it's meaningless to be trepidatious over a future most of the people on this planet will never be able to have (affordable housing, a stress free retirement).
And I dunno but calling it "a matter of perspective" feels like a lie, or a compromise, especially when knowing that we are slowly destroying our world and making everyone's lives horrible so that a few people can enjoy themselves.
We shouldn't fighting to live in such a dystopia.
I don't want to say that their goals are wrong and mine are better, everyone has their bandwidth, but I just disagree that it is a matter of perspective. (Upon looking at it again, I think we both just understand this meme differently)
I am so fucking tired of living in this world.
The framing looks bad to us because that's not the housing we want, that's not the vacation we want, those aren't the toys we want, and that's not the retirement we want.
There are loads and loads of people who love suburbs and Funko trash, and they will fight us to the death to preserve what they have.
The examples given are, in fact, what they're fighting for and they're fully aware and quite happy about it.
You are totally correct. There are billions of people on this planet who are dreaming of such a life.
I think you made it worse
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What even is funny about this? It's a mass tragedy, mass waste of life.
On this planet, what isn't?