Future

... do we actually have "cool looking motorcycles", especially compared what was already available 20 or even 30 years ago?

I mean... Yeah, kind of?
That's a BMW ce 04. I guess it counts more as an electric scooter, but as there's no empty space between your feet I guess it's somewhere in between.
- All those cycles are OK, but they don't compare to the light cycles in Tron. Or even Kaneda's bike in Akira. C'mon corporate dystopia, you can do better...
The new Honda E Motorcycle is simultaneously design to look like it came from 1980 and 2080.
- How does the white one look old-fashioned and yet is exact same design?
Kinda yeah. Thats a Zero XB
- Huh, that's kinda neat. Though IDK if that really has the visual impact that people associate with cyberpunk ...
Yeah, he should have said mad max looking trucks. Because that's where we actually are with this nightmare.
Yeah... Haven't motorcycles always looked cool?
- Yeah, but you can't just roll in on a Harley when it's a cyberpunk dystopia.

Time Traveling Me who has been to the farther future: "Neither of you realize how good you both have it."

Future future future you only says: constant screaming
- Presumably because he travelled back the moment he saw the bombs fall and knows he can no longer go back to his future, but you'll never know, because he won't stop fucking screaming.
Glad to see future-you apparently survived The Great Purge. ...So far.
- thought crimes exist in the future. purge would be mercy.

Feel like switching to something lighter than the news? Watch Idiocracy (hopefully rewatch) and try to guess how much is yet to come.

I rewatched Idiocracy last fall. It’s much less enjoyable than watching it as a teen in the late 2000s because its so real now.
- Kinda like how WWII docus aren't as interesting, amirite?
- It was a really bad movie when it came out. It really needed the real life examples in order to stitch it all together.
I laughed so much i cried when watching Idiocracy. Its just that now, we have Trump acting way worse than the characters in the movie, so Im kind of not laughing anymore at where things are going.
Its some large psy-ops where people are supposed to feel like the world is so insane and there is nothing they can do. But outside of this "social" media, there are a lot of decent, intelligent people still around who doesnt buy into all the bullshit.
Unfortunately a lot of young people will believe this is normal, since they dont know how it was before.
- Truth, every word, and I feel ya. It's one of the salient reasons we've gotta be kinder to each other: we're just crabs in the bucket to the ruling class, and the gloved hand comes for us all without bias. Stand together, my carcinous kin!

Literary futuristic dystopias have the luxury of clearly defining good vs bad and generally ignoring the horrible plight of the have-nots as anything other than plot points or scene setting.

You’d never read a book that was nothing more than the grind of hopelessness, the self-sabotaging myopic stupidity, greed, and hatreds of the masses that get manipulated by politicians.

What the authors do almost always get right is the bottomless greed of the wealthy willing to set the fictional world on fire and destroy, or at best coldly disregard, the lives of those not in their class to further their wealth and power.

I mean, just from looking at History, we should've expected that the Dystopia we would get was one were things are shit for most people but we're constantly fed fables that "actually it's all good", "for you it's going to be fine (trust me)" or that "it's all the fault of the poor and foreigners" (or all three, in sequence, as things get more undeniably bad).
That said, at least looking back at teenage me, I don't think that at that age one is worldly or wise enough (and many people never are) to figure out that the most likely way for us to be screwed would involve some grand scale variant of the "one hand in our pockets whilst the other is waving in front of our faces to distract us" strategy.

Motorcycles are not measurably cooler looking than when I was a teenager.

They look the goddamn same...and choppers are gone
- Sport bikes continue to insectify themselves, small motorcycles are disappearing (250cc bikes are all but gone and the 300cc era didn't seem to last long) cruisers are an endangered species, probably because they're copies of Harley-Davidsons which is a dying brand, turns out making god damn fucking sure you only appeal to Boomers isn't the best long-term business strategy.

Well, the irrational revolution is happening in front of our eyes...

The ?
- People having the power to vote and pretty much voting against their own interest. The irrational revolution. It's happening word wide.

Yeah but daylight still exists

That's why I like Atom Fall, sun-drenched dystopia, with pretty flowers.