White noise (1985) about a chemical spill from a train derailment, leading to a massive evacuation, and absurdist elements like everyone dancing at the end (incidentally the same element that played out with the tiktok nurses during covid)
V for Vendetta (1984) about a massive plague leading to lockdowns and dictatorship.
The Running Man (1982)
Plague 99 (1989)
The White Plague (1982)
The Stand (1978)
Johnny Mnemonic (1981) - corporations take over the world, information is absolute power
The handmaidens tale (1985) - a story about sexual slavery. LGBTQ is about normalizing grooming kids. Which would be necessary if these people were gonna create a society based on sexual slavery.
The Postman (1985) - "It is set in a post-apocalyptic and neo-Western version of the disestablished United States in the then near-future year of 2013, sixteen-plus years after unspecified apocalyptic events, followed by plagues.." Read, plagues. Not nuclear war, plagues.
Nuclear war is a headfake. A headfake for what? If they had rush headlong into another outbreak, the public, fatigued, would have seen it coming.
So whoever is running clowworld had to distract people for a moment from the 'new thing' that had become 'the old thing', to make it new again.
But whoever is suggesting these giant clusterfuck narratives, some semi small group of advisor-types to sundry world leaders and billionaires? I guarantee you these fucks have shelves full of dystopian scifi from the 1970s and 1980s.
The parallels are never complete, nor direct, but the elements are pulled from them liberally, in framing the past, controlling the present, and envisioning the future as they would have it.
Their playbook is 'the discord of the alienated and powerless at the twilight of civilization.'
The people running the world, and I am now certain someone is--the people running the world, are insane.
prototype 0 points 2.1 years ago
I'll add it to the chatter at least, thank you.