Just because there are fantastical elements to these stories doesn't mean their themes can't be poignant examinations of where the real world is headed.

We're not in a giant simulation, but technology is causing people to lose contact with reality, and our lives increasingly become about keeping a giant "machine" running.

We may not have a SkyNet in charge of our nuclear missiles, but should we not be concerned about AI making life-and-death decisions in war?

Or they are promoting a language where the lower viscera speak to lower viscera. A zombie-like contagion in which the spreading is through suggestive imagery.

Pornographic enrollment: images towards lower excitement, to enlarge the number of the lowerly excited.

Can you use known cultural elements to get your message across. That's not a new concept

Are you familiar with the concept of rhetoric? This is something similar.

Our machines are now more intelligent than most humans, which would have qualified as "fantasy" as recently as 3 years ago. Clearly some people will only give up on this flawed reasoning exactly when the robot boot is pressed against their throat lmao.