What the fuck did I just read? The whole I, Ching oracle thing kinda reminds me of Billy Bat by Urasawa.
>>25284227Turns out that using an oracle to guide your oracle results in a shit plot
>>25284227>and this world is a cruel authoritarian dystopia because...>there's no diversityIt's so strange how incapable people are at criticizing fascism, they make it look amazing instead. It's the same with cyberpunk.
>>25284227I thought it was profound because I used to use the I Ching to make decisions. It's essentially the same thing. Meandering bullshit that just peter's out with little to no real ending or meaning or definite outcome.
Just bought this because I needed some dick and it was this or the blade runner book. Is it shit
>>25284294It is very esoteric, so if you don't mind hearing his character ramble about eastern philosophy of predicting (?) the future, then good luck.
>>25284249Most fictional takes on fascism are entirely defined by aesthetics and references rather than the actual philosophy and Doctrine. And making the ,,fascists" just generic authoritarians in snazzy uniforms will always result in the audience tending to them rather than the good guys who resemble abstract or politically ,,boring" concepts like equality, democracy, human rights, enviromentalism,... in ridiculous outfits.For all fascism actually is, it doesn't lend much material to make it enganging to the actual audience because it isn't an universalist ideology with a tisy lists of points regarding how to set up a state like liberalism or communism are. Funnily enough, it is far too concerned with the individual. I guess you can poke fun at the Nazi's racial ideology, but the schtick of ,,haha, supposedly Aryan superman getting owned by a jew/black man" got old years ago.
>>25284294Yeah, watch the first two seasons of the tv adaptation instead.
>>25284294>I needed some dickPreach
It might be time to stop reading his 8-9 best known books and explore some of his relatively more obscure titles.
>>25286285Such as?
>what if our reality was...le book written by some guy (it IS lmao)Incredibly dumb waste of time. Setting up all those complex plotlines and themes and questions just to wrap it up like a 6 year old
>>25286605When you put it like it that, it sounds like an episode from Black Mirror or Twilight Zone.
>>25286605plotfags FILTERED
>>25284399Fascism IS about aesthetics thoughbeit
>>25284399Lotta blathering to say nothing and also show that you didn't read the book
