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Someone should make a game comparing our world to a cyberpunk dystopia (lemmy.today)
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Note: this is a take from an art, not politics, perspective. Respect the rules of the community!

Most of the dystopian genres in art, and especially visual art, try their best to represent the dystopian world as something very black, grey, uniform, with iron fences, barbed wires, and street shootings.

And that's while we know that dystopian world comes at us while trying to remain unnoticed, unimportant, to fly under the radar.

And it would be amazing to expose through art, storytelling, etc. To help players immerse in a world that's not so different from our own, while slowly showing to them what's actually happening, deconstructing the world to make players see what it's actually made of and what hides behind the facade of a normal everyday life.

I think this kind of representation of everyday dystopia could be helpful to prevent it from expanding in our very real world. People should learn to see signs of it without the common aesthetics.

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[โ€“] shalafi 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fahrenheit 451 was fascinating for the sub-story about the TV walls and, "Oh look! The White Clown is on!"

Best friend held an acid party back in 1991 or so. From where we stood we could see all 3 TVs, 3 different sizes. He said, "Check it out. The attention people pay to the screen is directly proportional to it's size." Didn't matter was was on screen, the larger it was, the more people stared, the less they talked. That's really stuck with me.

And the parasocial relationships with the people are the screen foretold much.

Can't imagine many would care about book burning today. I only know one other person that reads books, and few even "read" the internet.

[โ€“] ch00f 1 points 1 month ago

I remember thinking the interactive TV thing was dumb when I read it in middle school (early 2000s).

But now we have streamers who just sit there and say "mmm ice cream!" whenever someone gives them a dollar.