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In Blade Runner, American society seems to be in a state of chaos.
For one thing, it's run by a gigantic and nasty company, the Tyrell Corporation, which creates replicants for the purpose of slave labor. On top of that, even though this society is technologically advanced, it seems to consist mainly of a vast and grimy underworld, where different groups are all participating in a dog-eat-dog fight for survival. It's multicultural, but not in an equitable way—people don't really have the freedom to participate in their society's governance (since its dominated by a corporation), and they seem to have been left adrift at the bottom of the food chain.
"There is no such thing as society. There are only individual men and women." – Margaret Thatcher
"Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand." – Karl Marx