The techbrocalypse is a woefully underexplored dystopian future setting
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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Handmaidens tale comes close tho
I'm throwing Starship Troopers in the ring
Idiocracy?
Not even!!!!! Nobody ever imagined such a horrible scenario
i can think of a few stories...
The last, uhh, 24 years keep reminding me of this line by Yeats:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Transmetropolitan nails this.
Unfortunately for us as a civilization, the series has aged quite well.
My God, how I miss Warren Ellis.
THIS. Where is the Transmetropolitan streaming series? The time has never been more right.
Neither the Beast nor the Smiler are ignorant, conspiracy theorists, or foreign assets though (grifters and sex criminals, most definitely, I'll give you that, especially the Smiler, but most of the City's population seems to fit in those categories too, so in that sense they do represent their electorate).
They're both quite competent and intelligent psychopaths.
Now, if we're talking about the Republican Party Reservation and its associated TV show, or the vat-grown VP...
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
This movie is eerily accurate despite being scathing satire. There’s more than a hint of truth in it. More like a mountain.
Gotta protect those bodily fluids boiz!
I feel like altered carbon might be on the right path, possibly blade runner as well.
Tom Clancy may yet surprise you
Season 4 of Lexx had all that and aliens.
Alt: duck soup movie poster, in which a grifter con man fails upward to leading a country, makes a mockery of justice, appoints idiots spying for a foreign government, and ends up in a losing war and destruction.
And it came out in 1933.
Something about history rhyming and all that.
So we're a decade early. WWIII 2029?
And some song lyrics from the first music number:
The last man nearly ruined this place,
He didn’t know what to do with it
If you think this country’s bad enough now,
Just wait till I get through with it. /
The country’s taxes must be fixed,
And I know what to do with it.
If you think you’re paying too much now,
Just wait till I get through with it. /
I will not stand for anything
That’s crooked or unfair.
I’m strictly on the up and up,
So everyone beware. /
If anyone’s caught taking graft
And I don’t get my share,
We stand ‘em up against the wall…
And pop goes the weasel!
I have to watch it again, along with some of the others like coconauts and day at the races
Morons from Outer Space is a classic you should include
Sure, some did. But in those novels the same individuals were actually pretty smart.
That’s the difference.
There's a big smart evil guy somewhere puppeting all these morons, right? Please god tell me there's one smart guy doing all of this. It can't be idiots the entire chain of command.
So many villains in fiction are depicted as intelligent, phew, did we ever get that one wrong
It may seem like a meme, but Idiocracy did actually nail it. Dumb and aggressive with no attention span.
No they didn't. The president recognized a smart person and put them in charge to fix their problems. Do you see the Trump administration doing that?
Idiocracy was less mean-spirited than reality, though. Sure, people were assholes, but they weren't trying to eradicate trans people or immigrants.
Go away, baitin
Honestly, its always been anti-intellectualism. Sure not all smart people are good people, but in general empathy is a sign of intelligence, while malice and stupidity go hand in hand.
Edit: There's also the fact that the smart tropey villains also often happen to be wealthy, and as we all know being wealthy means someone is smart/s
If they were intelligent, we wouldn't even figure out they're villains
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The amount of sexual predators Epstein's closest friend have nominated to position of powers is incredible,
V for Vendetta seems close though
I kind of thought this was the joke. Many many dystopian plots are about governments ran by corporations and filled with foreign spies.
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Wait until you take your first road trip through Ameristan.
kak·i·sto·cra·cy
noun
Government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
On behalf of all the Welsh people I know would you have a problem with “cac” rather than the Dutch based (?) “kak” in this word?
"Kak" is from Greek. "Cac" is an alternate spelling coming from the same root via French, as in "cacophony" or
I've recently started coming up with new words by changing eu- (meaning good) into caco-. You get some great ones like:
- cacophoria
- cacovangelium
- cacogenics
- cacology
- cacophemism
And my favourite, cacothanasia.
Interesting. I know “kak” from Afrikaans and “cachu” from Welsh. I’ve never seen the word definitively derived from Greek; I always believed the root was from PIE language. What do I know?
I looked up the Dutch "kak" and that's pretty funny. It means "bad" in Greek, but the Dutch meaning still works great - rule by the shittiest people.
Yeah - I assumed “shit (people)” was what we were going for; “k” doesn’t exist in Welsh so I asked for the alt spelling. Cacophony then translated as “shit sound” in my head - which again, kind of, works. Language is difficult.
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