13 November 2025

I know I'm supposed to like solarpunk, but there is something ominous about it. A flower that grows out of the rubble after "the fall". 

Cyberpunk gets a bad rap. 

There is this scene from The Revenant, where Glass (DiCaprio) meets a Pawnee man fleeing south. Both of their families have been annihilated, and while Glass wants revenge, the man is just hoping to find anyone left of his tribe. After saving Glass's life, he's killed anticlimactically by French trappers. 

We never learn his name, and he's just a minor plot device, but for him this is truly the end of the world. There are now only about 10 people who still speak his language. 

I love cyberpunk because it still imagines us as central characters. The tech is in our bodies and minds. We aren't just paved over and forgotten. However aesthetically gray and inhuman things become, the story is still about us. 

I want to pull a lever, flip a switch, and feel all the whirring gizmos and blinking lights come alive. To rebel against Evil Corp, and stake our claim. 

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