A [Not-So-Distant] Dystopian Future: The Dystopian Landscape of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

2/9/2020 1 Comment

A [Not-So-Distant] Dystopian Future: The Dystopian Landscape of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

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Will Willows

1/11/2020 12:19:57

Interesting and we'll done. Although missing the mark in our timeline for living conditions Scott's vision has hit the Praetorian Police head on and the cities and governments enslaved to corporate capitalism repressing low level humans bypassing Constitutional Law in favor of edicts and decrees. We will get to the low level living conditions soon enough.

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