the nineteenth centiry gave way to futurism being associated with technological advancement and that came along with improved habitability but before that people beliebed that the second coming of christ was near, skip forward to this dau and we see kiler robots and sex dystopia's everywhere depicted that draw people in with promises of the past but in a furutistic coating. in fact it seems that peoepel do want a future other than this one, one that is closer to the primitive past but with the remnants of the present. thats why we should not antagonise movie directors when they molest children
It goes in a few directions, some being:
The Hero Frontier: They have fantasies that, in a more simple world, that they'd be the badass archer or warrior to help rebuild society if not cloister alone(ish) from society, maybe start a family to help repopulate the human race so that people having sex with them has necessity.
The Purge: They have fantasies of wanting to commit crimes or do sick shit without some sort of law overlooking them. A lot of this sort however are mostly fantasizing over feeling trapped and powerless in their current setup, and even manifests in different fantasies as stuff like 'The Hacker'.
The End: Some either are so afraid of dying or things ending that they become fixated with it, a paradoxical impatience with 'getting it over with' for something they do not want to happen. This sort tend to live in such a state of fear and doubt that something like The Rapture happening would at the very least prove that their panicking wasn't for nothing.
A lot of it is the result of feeling trapped in our current society, feeling as if the only escape is to go backwards or start over. It's more difficult to not only imagine a future that has yet to happen, but based on the perceived freedoms they presume come from the more basic stages they figure the antithesis of that, with complete surveillance and fewer choices left, is the likely future.