One of the better Cyberpunk lore concepts is that there used to be one big internet and in 2022 one guy fucked it up so bad that they had to shut it down and go back to several smaller networks and they keep the corpse of the old one in a basement somewhere.
writing novels is a way of understanding the world around you & that doesn’t inherently have anything to do with hope. the best books interrogate life, which is as full of suffering as it is beauty. it isn’t the duty of art to give everyone hope. that’s for hallmark cards.
Just laughed out loud remembering Supersize Me when the doctor said he had the liver of an end-stage alcoholic and he was like wow, just from eating mcdonalds... whole time he really was an end-stage alcoholic. Irish American icon
To be clear: If God offered to shorten my life to lengthen Scorsese's- I'd take the deal. This man understands Cinema. Defends Cinema. Embodies Cinema. He has always fought for the art of it and against the industry of it. He has never been tamed and has a firm place in history.