Grim Meathook Future
Cyberpunk ist eine mögliche Utopie, GMF vielleicht eine deutlich wahrscheinlichere. Insbesondere wenn man sich die aktuelle Nachricht auf The Fall of Civilzation zum Thema Nahrung anschaut.
The Grim Meathook Future (’GMF’) is a concept of the future first elucidated by Las Vegas-based media writer Joshua Ellis[1] [2]. It is a dark future, characterized by religious wars spreading from the third world across the globe, and the consequent breakdown of first world society. Irremediable disaster areas such as post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans (The ‘K-Hole’) become the norm.
It is often dialectically placed in dichotomy to a so-called ‘Bright Spime-world future’, also known as The Noosphere, in which information-technology prevails. As Ellis puts it “The Grim Meathook Future is what happens when irrationalism and tribalism win over techno-utopianism and consumer capitalism.” (Answers.com)