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It's because no one likes to imagine a shithole future in a scifi universe.

How many shithole sci fi universes are there that aren't outright parody like Warhammer 40k? I guess Blade Runner counts?

>>42502
Any of the YA dystopia novels might count.
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe comes to mind.

>>42501
Tbh I think it is inevitable people will be way cleaner and healthier in the future. It's just the law of historical development. In fact I think its likely people will just go naked, clothes might even be considered dirty.
>>42502
Star Wars, that Soviet film filmed in Kazakhstan where they go koo, the Expanse.

>>42516
You forgot the forever war

>>42517
That was such a good book, I think the best antidote to space marines and Heinlein. Did it have something about people going naked? I know everyone went gay in the future and then were kind of post-gender, that was cool.

>>42518
It has to do with the implications of prolonged war and the debt future generations have to pay in terms of their aspirations over it.
The main message of the war isn’t related to homosexuality, cloning, one race, hive mind collectivism, or even aliens.

It’s actually about the indescribably huge societal burden wars place on infrastructure, social progress, and scientific advancement.

Just look at the war in Ukraine. Two countries now spending trillions on a war that hasn’t seen a frontline meaningfully change in over two years. Millions have had their lives either destroyed or sentenced to work mindlessly for the war effort all while meaningful technological advancement has grounded to a halt everywhere except in military tech. Don’t forget, those countries could be building space colonies right now. Then there’s Sudan, then there’s Congo, then there’s Myanmar, the failed American expansion in Afghanistan, even the war on terror has costed humanity as a collective trillions EVERY YEAR.