Nick Poole@North@chaos.social
Maybe this sounds like hippy bullshit, but I think we need a New Utopian art movement. For reasons that are almost certainly too complex to address, most people are not media-literate enough to parse "dystopian future as commentary on the present" (They've never heard the phrase "1984 was written about 1948") and they routinely learn the wrong lessons as a result. Furthermore, it creates an atmosphere wherein artists compete to imagine worse and worse "futures"