| From: | Wafflemeisters <evamarie@**********.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Old Age Runners |
| Date: | Thu, 7 May 1998 16:47:50 -0500 |
Jameson , Wed 19:10)
> You know what the sad thing is? There are plenty of people on this list
> who simply have no recollection of living like that, who only know about
> the Cold War from books and school. Some of us geezers actually grew up
> with the spectre of the Red Menance and Global Thermonuclear War.
What weirds me out is that the cyberpunk genre is, AFAIK, a very direct
response to the social stresses of the cold war and popular Nihilism.
Of course, the Government isn't doing recent generations any favors, and
in fact, society may be growing more towards the inequitous situations
cyberpunk explores, but I wonder- what draws people to cyberpunk fiction
and SR today? Its not the "pop" medium it was 15 years ago, when
Terminator and Max Headroom were widely accepted popular figures.
Futristic Nihilsm doesn't seem to play as broadly anymore as it once
did. Even SR's new developments seem to reflect this.
Anybody care to comment? Are older SR players a bunch of cynical
holdouts, or is there an unnoticed wave of technosavy nihilists (Marilin
Manson fans DON'T count)?
-Mongoose (old enough to visit the "home", young enough to not want to)
