100% agree and I like to think that way about the art too, but I guess where I still take issue with it is that it makes people ask the wrong questions. In some ways, you provided the right answers to those questions, but I don't know that people are generally gonna arrive at those same conclusions, more likely they're gonna get stuck in the reactionary sort of framing. We only arrived at the right answers because we already have the ideology.

If anything, I feel like I prefer cyberpunk as an aesthetic, because the questions it makes people ask are questions that naturally lead them to better conclusions even if they aren't equipped with ideology yet. Where solarpunk makes people wonder about how they're gonna live like they're running back Manifest Destiny in the future, cyberpunk makes them wonder how they're gonna resist surveillance technology.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

but I guess where I still take issue with it is that it makes people ask the wrong questions. In some ways, you provided the right answers to those questions, but I don't know that people are generally gonna arrive at those same conclusions, more likely they're gonna get stuck in the reactionary sort of framing. We only arrived at the right answers because we already have the ideology.

that's a fundamental problem with communicating ideas with art and the reading tea leaves approach common to western art education.