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The Dystopia We’re Sold

Dystopia is something you buy, every single day. Planned obsolescence, ignored diminishing returns, false innovation, consumerism, these seemingly mundane aspects of daily life lay the framework of a purchased dystopia. What’s advertised to us as innovative tech or better features of products we need is really a clever trick; justifying the existence of corporations who add little value to the world to maximize profits, at the cost of us and our world, using excessive energy, wasting resources, and creating undue waste. Planned obsolescence, ignored diminishing returns, false innovation are creating the consumerist dystopia we live in every single day. In this video essay we’ll explain how Blade Runner incorporates these concepts (ignored diminishing returns & planned obsolescence & false innovation), and analyze how they present an abstraction of our own world, and discuss the implications of these concepts. Blade Runner is a 1982 cyberpunk film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford. An adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” it follows Rick Deckard, a retired blade runner chasing down replicants, synthetic humans bio-engineered to be slaves on off-world colonies, led by Roy Batty. Created by the Tyrell Corporation, the replicants led by Roy seek out their creator Tyrell to ask for a longer life, while Deckard attempts to stop them. The overall narrative of Blade Runner is a philosophical one, questioning what humans really are as cyberpunk works do, as well as the importance of memories, empathy, and how dystopian civilizations are formed. Buying Ourselves a Dystopia | A movie analysis video essay explaining Blade Runner #bladerunner #videoessay #cyberpunk #professorviral