The Comforts Of Cyberpunk | Escape Into Meaning

BOOK FAQS:

*Will the book be sold internationally?* Yes, Escape Into Meaning should available for shipping to most places around the world where English-language books are sold. Amazon is your best bet, but local retailers can also order books from abroad (may just take a bit longer). I don’t have a full list of where it’s available, and I don’t control this in any way, so I’m sorry if you can’t get the hardcover where you live.

*Will the book be translated into other languages?* Escape Into Meaning is only available in English for now. Translated versions usually don’t happen unless there are significant sales. If this book gets translated, that means something went really right, but we won’t know that for some time. If there are going to be translations, I will let you know as soon as I do.

These will be the only live events I’ll be doing. I’m sorry if you don’t live near these cities — but I will be doing a livestream event that will be available for everyone. When I have the link and details for that, I will share it with you.

I will update this as more questions come in. Thanks!

ISBN 978-1-9821-6395-2

[Nerdwriter]

BOOK FAQS:

*Will the book be sold internationally?* Yes, Escape Into Meaning should available for shipping to most places around the world where English-language books are sold. Amazon is your best bet, but local retailers can also order books from abroad (may just take a bit longer). I don’t have a full list of where it’s available, and I don’t control this in any way, so I’m sorry if you can’t get the hardcover where you live.

*Will the book be translated into other languages?* Escape Into Meaning is only available in English for now. Translated versions usually don’t happen unless there are significant sales. If this book gets translated, that means something went really right, but we won’t know that for some time. If there are going to be translations, I will let you know as soon as I do.



These will be the only live events I’ll be doing. I’m sorry if you don’t live near these cities — but I will be doing a livestream event that will be available for everyone. When I have the link and details for that, I will share it with you.

I will update this as more questions come in. Thanks!

[tronrunner]

Also a big plus to cyberpunk dystopia is the synth sounds and music. Like nostalgia, melancholy, loneliness all in one!

[Blaine]

For me cyberpunk is a product of the 80s and is very much tied to the sense of trying to find a place in a world where the bad guys have won.

[nTHvWmDBfkG]

Best line ever: “It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again who does.” Similar nuanced meaning to the biography about Jim Morrison entitled “No One Here Gets Out Alive”.

[Rileysworld]

The monologue at the end of blade runner is one of my favorites. When im feeling really sad i say it out loud and it makes me feel a little better.

[Keanuism]

I thought I was the only one that thought cyberpunk is cozy

[marcdaniels]

there's a kind of freedom you get from being completely screwed, because you know things won't get any worse.

[anirishmoron]

You have perfectly encapsulated this feeling I've held for this genre but never could put into words.

[Xcog]

This little video hit me harder than a lot of things in recent memory. "The fight's over, and we lost." It's a sublime mix of despair and hope; there's no need to struggle anymore.

I want to explore a world where the struggle isn't over, even if "we've" lost. Something like the recovery from the fallout, or maybe the (attempted) aversion of the true, final fallout just before it's due.

[asdkotable]

!! This really articulates why I love big neon-soaked megalopolises. I loved strolling around Shanghai at night. The skyscrapers and the lights and the enormous crowds made me feel insignificant, and for once I could just enjoy the moment, I could exist outside of my worries for the future and anxieties of the past. I simply exist, just a transient speck of the vast human existence, passing each other without a thought, here today, gone tomorrow.

Thank you for this video.

[emeraldcelestial]

The speech could seem trite but with Rutger Hauer's delivery and expressions sort of being perfect it gets elevated to something we still mention today.

[jefcaine]

When all hope of meaning and purpose is lost one must look to find meaning in the emptiness itself.

[gigglysamentz]

2:36 Captures very well my feeling yesterday. I was enjoying seeing the stars and thinking of how far they were and how small I was. While my partner wasn't keen because of "existential dread", I found it comforting to know I'm insignificant.

[MisterMajister]

It's incredible to me how gazing a night sky can make me so calmed, since i remember nothing really matters that much. I wish I could do it more often

[ThatsMrFrank]

I think that for the viewer, a cyberpunk setting is one in which you make yourself voluntarily lonely. Like you say, it's a setting where the war for a proper existence and humanising structures and behaviours is over, so the viewer voluntarily isolates itself. In effect, futility is accepted and there is a melancholic peace to it. But also on a more simple (and less depressive) level, sometimes being surrounded by sensation is oddly peaceful as they drown each other in a sea of light and sound. Because most of us are very far from the serenity of the countryside, a "white noise" silence from so much light and sound in an imposing city is the closest we can be to peace.

[michaelelliott]

That closing line about "...the downpour of time." is pure art. Brilliant like your aforementioned stars in this video.

[arthousecouch]

This is the sensation I feel from real life cities when visiting them as well. The older, the city, the more I feel it and am fascinated by it. When I visited Athens, Greece for the first time, I've noticed that throughout the city they deliberately have little slivers of glass flooring randomly placed. Below you can see ancient Athenian ruins. Quite the sensation when you're shopping at an international chain clothing store.

[oneworldonehome]

"Meaning is found in real engagements with others which serve a real purpose that serves the evolution of the world."

_Greater Community Spirituality » Chapter 8: Who is Wisdom meant for?_

[benwasserman]

I guess you can sum up cyberpunk’s appeal as “the future may be shit, polluted and run by megacorporations, but at least it looks cool.”

[alancosta]

You just translated my feeling with ciberpunk, a felling that I could never express in words. "We have already lost"