As does chaos in general...I suspect a literary view to apocalypse, ironically enough, is born of a desire for final order imposed on troubled times - for the religious, and end to secular power; for the scientist, a removal of artificial habitat, for the Western man with a prejudiced heart, an end to concern for anyone else etc.
Sure - consider whether the average citizen can fix or reprogram a smartphone, a car, the machines that make cars, bioengineer crops, make a motherboard, make cleaning fluids, make a drone...the skill and manufacture involved in all these everyday things is not the purview of the People; increasingly there are folk left behind, bewildered and afraid of new technology, science out of democratic knowledge or control. That disconnect is what spawns our dystopias and tales of corporate paranoia - the rational fear even our limbs might be beholden to the few with the arcane means of production, in contrast to the Steampunk ideal, which cuts Time back to the split and says: "we'll help make you one. It'll be beautiful, bespoke, and our pride lies in that it will last".
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Date: 2016-06-13 05:39 am (UTC)Sure - consider whether the average citizen can fix or reprogram a smartphone, a car, the machines that make cars, bioengineer crops, make a motherboard, make cleaning fluids, make a drone...the skill and manufacture involved in all these everyday things is not the purview of the People; increasingly there are folk left behind, bewildered and afraid of new technology, science out of democratic knowledge or control. That disconnect is what spawns our dystopias and tales of corporate paranoia - the rational fear even our limbs might be beholden to the few with the arcane means of production, in contrast to the Steampunk ideal, which cuts Time back to the split and says: "we'll help make you one. It'll be beautiful, bespoke, and our pride lies in that it will last".