Escape from the Wasteland

The Broken Promises of Utopia and the Relentlessly Optimistic Nihilism of Mad Max: Fury Road

I’ve thought a lot about optimistic nihilism lately, and about what it looks like in practice, which led me back to the wasteland of Mad Max: Fury Road. This deck began as an excuse to watch one of my favorite movies a million times, but I was also curious about how far off we are from the utopia and/or dystopia sold to us by…