>>72423Things are getting political because people are feeling insecure about their futures.
There are several "if we don't fix this now, we're in for some bad times" scenarios - some of which mutually incompatible - that are competing with each other for your attention. Would you prefer to save the world from X or would you like to invest your energy into preventing Y from ending civilization instead?
Oh, but the government is apparently not doing anything about any of them, so we are really fucked, regardless of which one ends up being true. This is mainstream thought now, not some fringe doomsday cult's ideas.
(I hope that my omission of any keywords will allow this conversation to remain civil)
I think that rather than scifi being no longer in the interest of people, as a society we just haven't been able to agree on an aesthetic and theme yet.
I keep thinking that CyberPunk is the most appropriate form of expression for our modern time, (but arguably that just goes to show where I stand in the debate of which global catastrophes are most likely to kill us all).
As far as aesthetics go, I really love the silent solitude of space. I know I am quite an oddball in that regard.