Sir David Attenborough breaks Jennifer Aniston’s Instagram record for fastest time to reach one million followers. … with quiet words he describes the problems our world is facing … Is it time for a revolution and what would that look like?
Although YMMV, the Cyberpunk dystopia has always had a political edge. Just look at the nefarious corporations and ineffective governments punching down at the population. After all, the seeds have always been there for a revolution, the real question becomes what will it look like.
In Cyberpunk, it’s difficult to know what a revolution would look like. Will Medias be hitting the streets reporting every even? Will underground media outlets get their message out through a network of friends? After all you can’t stop the signal, but …
In the Red, the digital world has come crashing down. This cuts many people off from the dopamine hit Social Media provides. Cast out of the expansive ‘Net’, the play ground of human desire, leaves us cold. We are facing the stark human reality of meat space.
The Analogue future feels more real than the media been streamed into your eyeball or neuro-sim pumped directly to your brain. The street is harder to control when you can’t tell them how to think.
2020 has provided a number of examples around the world. Check out Riot Medicine, A free manual for practicing insurrectionary medicine. It’s long at about 450 pages, but does give you a good run down of street medicine. It’s a good resource for PC Meditechs or GMs/Refs who want to add a layer of realism to your game (Just don’t forget to read the warning label).
