You Tried to Escape Through the Desert With the Gas! Puny Plan!

Well what some say is that, you get what you imagine you can get. I wouldn't blame the artistic focus of anything upon what people let that lead them to imagine will be in real life.

How the fuck else is any kind of future meant to occur - you have to know what you want, and you have to focus on that and head towards it. Shit doesn't just invent itself; those'd be other people's playgrounds you want to live in.

Nobody knows why, but the meathead is for some reason held in regard as a way to go in some of the whiteish western urban cultures. Never mind that it's wasteful, presumptious in the extreme insofar as what reality is really all about, and will in all likeihood lead to an eternity of torture following its blowout of a month or two of rockin'.

This is kind of retro-future; gas thievery stretches back to the '70s, during America's initial acquaintance with the limits of progress. Said gas shortages were probably part of the inspiration for Mad Max. (I know, I know - Australian film; point stands.) I think that humanity will continue to pull through by the seat of our pants - that is, until 2050, when I exterminate the last biological resistance.

But that's a ways off.

The past was dog-eat-dog, the future is dog overwork dog in hopes that dog will someday be promoted to middle management. Sorry we went from fucked-up to lame, but in every time there are dogs that go their own way. Woof!

well, i always sorta imagined the future in a cyberpunky way, like high technology meets people living on the edge of survival, cities falling apart etc. etc. So, in that respect, and certainly in the context of what's happening in the environment i think that the mad max series, particularly the road warrior and beyond thunderdome are pretty "futuristic" maybe even more accurate than we really want to think about. all i can say is, good thing im taking kung-fu..

It's about f*ckin time. I've been waiting to slap on my leather and spikes and pull out my exploding crossbow for a while now. When gas hits $5 a gallon I'm sooooo there.

mmm... barbarians with chariots...

Stupidity with some fancy machines doesn't really count as futuristic though. Mad Max isn't the future; it's barbarians with chariots that happen to have internal combustion engines.

But hey, if people want to believe that the future is about de-evolving to become a Sand Person, some kind of bandit thug, then that's their problem.