If our current global political reality was presented as the dystopian future in something like Terminator, Bladerunner, or 12 Monkeys, it would have bombed because it was too unbelievable.
“Loved the world building, but a future where Donald Trump, a New York sleezeball, has overthrown the American government with the support of the Supreme Court, the Republican Party, and the religious right and his ICE gestapo soldiers are rounding up Americans, is just too bizarre of a choice. It killed my suspension of disbelief. 1.5 stars” - Pulitzer Prize judge, 1992
What further horrors await us, it’s barely April. Rounded to the nearest year, Trump still has 4 more years. 🤮
We need to change to format to not include this clown.
Maybe something like this:
It could be taco Wednesdays.
Dressing up genocide and the suppression of free speech as “combating anti semitism” would have been laughably transparent.
[off topic?]
“Stand On Zanzibar” won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel of the year.
It’s set in the early 2000’s and got so many of the details right it’s uncanny. Some of the ideas that people in 1969 laughed at were mass homelessness; well paid folks needing room mates to make the rent; random school shootings, etc etc.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t
Our present is the dystopian future the protagonist in a movie sees before they go back and fix it
Shoutout to the protagonist: Will you PLEASE go back and fix this?
I’m learning to subsistence farm, so I’m not arguing.
I don’t need to change your mind, i agree
