Gregory's Server
 15 comments
@boyle @tofugolem most science fiction, frankly. War of the Worlds was "what if aliens do to us what we did to Africa?" @tofugolem I talked about it with a friend... How society manages to debate and feel the influence of their actions but thru a lens of sublimation. Like, when we talk about fear of machines taking over, we're actually talking about fear of corporations taking over. But we don't say as such. We feel, but sublimated. @tofugolem And another point. In distopian fiction books, author may not describe race. So African Americans can see characters as black so it's a crescendo of existing practices. But once you adapt it to movies you can't occlude race (and gender) anymore. So showing white characters suffering what African Americans know as systemic racism (but not racial, wink wink, we are oppressed *equally*) is a sort of cultural appropriation of being oppressed.  @nonlinear @tofugolem From that perspective one could describe The Hunger Games as "White Knight" trope. Oh dear, what a topic to unravel⦠  @tofugolem Except maybe 1984, Blade Runner, Planet of The Apes, Clockwork Orange, The Hunger Games and basically every dystopian book I've read. @tofugolem heard this paraphrased somewhere as "applying third world problems to a first world country". |
@tofugolem
Ouch. Felt this one.