We don't see much of the outside world, but from what some characters say, I think it might be a fusion of a cyberpunk and liberal utopian (like Star Trek) setting. The only humans we see are the workers, who we can assume are normal folks (maybe middle class rather than proles), management and the patrons (who are from the privileged classes). Ford in one episode states something like humanity has cured all disease and has reached the end of its advancement. Since the world still has rich and workers, we can assume they still have liberal capitalism. Thus, the show does fall within the realm of P U R E I D E O L O G Y, as it views our current paradigm as the end of history, something from which the social question has been answered (in the liberal mind, at least). So it's liberal utopianism to the degree that the writers believe the world's problems would (or even could) be solved by liberalism, but it has a little fo the cynical outlook of cyberpunk, in that the end of history has been reached but people's lives are still meaningless, cogs moving in the machine of capitalism, hence why the people who can afford it (the bourgies) seek to escape their reality in Westworld.
I'm thinking you might be right.
Yeah.
I assume they get into that in season 2?
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