I’m constantly torn between “I should make more of an effort to keep this cyberpunk community alive” and “I should give up on this whole Lemmy thing”… so here’s a meme.
I really should find a giant repository of random cyberpunk artwork that I can post regularly since I can’t keep up with a constant stream of discussion topics. Of course, if I did that, this community would turn more into r/cyberpunk with its random “here’s what I drew in class today” posts.
Human extinction is a preferable alternative to transhumanism. The only future that lies down that road is an exponentially deepening divide between the haves and have-nots, in which a slave class with mandatory compliance-enforcement augments is ruled like livestock by a class of sadistic, hyper-wealthy elites who enjoy life-extending luxury cybernetics in a horrific parody of the Morlocks and Eloi. The potential for debasement of the poor and unfortunate will skyrocket and it will not go untapped. Humanity will not exist forever and we do not have the right to prolong that inevitability by creating abominations.
I don’t necessarily agree with all you say, but I think it’s a very good point and something worth thinking about when you look at the topic.