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And since these movies were made mainly in the Eighties, of course all kinds of Eighties themes, fads, fashions, and yes, politics and morals crept into the story. Neon lights, Asian characters everywhere, katanas, big hair, tight paints, cities that look like Kowloon Walled City, rain all the fucking time, messages about the environment, etc.
Sure the Sexual Revolution happened, but that "racy weird shit" from the books sure wasn't going to fly in a respectable Hollywood movie. Gone were the themes of dedicated anarchists doing everything they could to burn down the entire system, and instead we had the very Eighties and very culturally acceptable..."jaded minion working obediently for the Man decides to Wake Up and Fight the Man (Matrix, Johnny Mnemonic, RoboCop, Blade Runner). The heroes were all people that worked for the System and were embedded in the System, and only became jaded with the System when something personally traumatic happened to them to make them give it up. And there was nothing wrong with that. I personally love all the Eighties cyberpunk classics. They raised an entire generation. And now, 30-ish years later, society has finally evolved to the point where the "racy degenerate" shit in the original underground novels isn't considered controversial anymore, and being a cyber-tranny hacker anarchist who wants to burn down Wall Street and establish Socialism now resonates with all of today's fucked up SJW youth. But it's NOT the youth taking the genre and corrupting it. The original pioneers of the genre were melodramatic center-left perverts that wrote about a theoretical future, then the Eighties came along and made it mainstream and palatable. And now CP2077 is here to let all the gay little fruity skeletons out of the closet.
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