I’m talking about how pockets and islands of cultures pop up everywhere within these settings, how Cyberpunk as a whole does away with national borders and lets everyone from everywhere and anywhere suffer equally.
And we’ve kinda’ missed the mark on that, as now culture is instead becoming eclectic. We don’t have pockets of cultures, we are steadily pushing toward having a single culture, a mass of haphazard associations and little comprehension of meaning.
See, that’s the thing, I rarely see these spaces being used nowadays! We have a couple of areas within the city which used to be high-traffic for skaters, bikers and such, now it’s (and I know how this’ll make me sound, but…) teens staring at their cellphones.
And the creepiest thing is that most people are even dressed the same. One used to see entire herds of Metal peeps, or you could tell the bikers and the skaters apart even without their signature implements. Dunno, maybe I’m getting old, but I miss seeing that variety.
Or, hell, maybe it’s just my country slowly dying off!=)))