Four Post-Modern Masterpieces Mapped the Future. They Tried to Warn Us

>The question is why we failed to recognize the warnings when they were delivered.

Numerator = 4

Denominator = Number of successful pieces of fiction exploring ideas about the future from circa 2000.

I should stop reading here and save myself the inevitable wankery that's coming.

edit: I kept reading. I'm not against discussing that fiction. It's the hook that bothers me. It activates my spidey sense for internet content that doesn't go anywhere. I regret being so curt; unfortunately I don't think I was wrong.

I can't lay my hands on the book or regrettably recall the author but there was a university book broadly on the op's topic and simulacrum that crossed into wide spread readership ... beyond academics. One of the lines I remember ran like this: when the currency is BS in an environment of hyper symbolism there can only be one result: hyper BS until it sucks all the oxygen out of room.

How/why'd JD Vance go from cultural heroin to VP? The currency is BS symbolism. And as such doing a 180 is just fine. To all degree there is no underlying reality and little consequence in the land of symbols.