I love natural world and folklore and I don’t want to live in a cyberpunk world or be part of the culture by all means. Although, somehow I found this genre totally attractive. I think it’s the cleverness in the worldview and deep thoughts given to human being that gives cyberpunk a distinctive charm. It stands out for itself very well and stay very true and passionate to it’s idea.
I read Bruce Sterling, Cyberpunk in the Ninetieth and fascinated with many explanation he had for this genre. Not only Cyberpunk remains true to it’s worldview, I think it’s also communicate the way things are at it’s moment so honestly without concern of mythological past or limitation of the future. It might be quite a sorrowful world with an absence of reasoning to why things appear as they are or what divine forces determined it. Although that is in itself is a great food for thought about what can we do with the present, which can lead us to many directions and some could be pretty dark. As Sterling said ‘There is ecstasy, but there is also dread.
However, I don’t find Cyberpunk completely Nihilistic. By freeing our mind from the limitation made from sacred rule we could possibly learn more from what we create in the process of destroying. To me Cyberpunk is extremely philosophical, paradoxical and reflective because we are able to learn from looking directly and into that dreadful kind of world. In the end, people in Cyberpunk universe might be quite wise with decision making and know how to live good with choices they committed to.
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