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   From: kbcalder@gmail.com   
      
   Kevin Calder  wrote:   
   > cykros  wrote:   
   >> On 08/03/2012 07:48 AM, Kevin Calder wrote:   
      
   Also i do wonder if we are getting to a point now where some of the central   
   concerns that inform cp are getting a little hard for folk to identify with   
   given how comfortable we have become with some forms of virtuality (and so   
   quickly too!) - and that this might influence the direction an adaptation   
   like the NM movie might take, for the worse.   
      
   One thing the probably non alt.cpers working on the NM movie (or some other   
   cp adaption) might find hard to see is that CP was never really interesting   
   as a fable warning us about the direction we were headed in, or even as   
   plain old speculative futurism - and a potential cp movie doesn't need to   
   try to be those things - and in fact will probably turn out pretty twee and   
   meh if it does.   
      
     Ive never really settled on what it is that i find exciting in cp but it   
   could be something like the way it explores the human capacity for   
   sacrifice and survival, in the face of universe committed to disinterested   
   absurdity.  When things get brutal people get transformed by their own   
   tenacious inclination to survival in ways that make us uncomfortable but   
   which we also admire.   
      
   Cyberpunk is a meaningless story about the application of brutality to   
   humanity and the disturbing and thrilling ways in which some people are   
   transformed in order to thrive.   
      
   --   
   Kevin Calder((-+tpass+-), (The Passenger))  "trecking down the information   
   superhighway (internet), i realize..........  i am lost in   
   cyberspace.............yikes!!!!!!!!!!!" - Dick@aol   
      
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