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Who needs #DarkFuture or #dystopias? Our beautiful, not-so-new present has long since caught up with #1984 in many respects. Wer braucht #DarkFuture oder #Dystopien, die schöne, nicht so neue Gegenwart hat (teilw.) längst #1984 eingeholt. #Perpetualwar #EwigerKrieg #Kriegsdienst #WarisPeace
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Who needs #DarkFuture or #dystopias? Our beautiful, not-so-new present has long since caught up with #1984 in many respects. Wer braucht #DarkFuture oder #Dystopien, die schöne, nicht so neue Gegenwart hat (teilw.) längst #1984 eingeholt. #Perpetualwar #EwigerKrieg #Kriegsdienst #WarisPeace
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Who needs #DarkFuture or #dystopias? Our beautiful, not-so-new present has long since caught up with #1984 in many respects. Wer braucht #DarkFuture oder #Dystopien, die schöne, nicht so neue Gegenwart hat (teilw.) längst #1984 eingeholt. #Perpetualwar #EwigerKrieg #Kriegsdienst #WarisPeace
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It seems I was ahead of my time by addressing #techno #fascist #island #dystopias and #Garifuna vs #SimCity https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/opinion/prospera-honduras-trump-pardon.html My take here https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/environmental-paradise-or-dystopian-debacle-promise-and-peril-of-futuristic-island-communities-commentary/ #peterthiel #trump #climate #sustainability #utopia #jetsons #jamesbond #health #covid
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Kate Armstrong’s remark about #SinclairLewis reminded me of his vision of a #dystopian #US and a sanctuary #Canada in #ItCan’tHappenHere. I included it in my piece about how Canada figures in #American #dystopias, written in ‘24 but still painfully relevant. doncurren.blogspot.com/2024/06/what...
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Brave New World
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/11/24/brave-new-world/
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“Stories such as these were dismissed—unless legend took seed and sprouted religion.”
#ApocalypticDystopian #book #dismissed #dystopianFiction #Dystopias #EpicFiction #fiction #FictionDystopian #FictionScienceFictionActionAdventure #FictionScienceFictionGeneral #FICTIONScienceFictionApocalypticPostApocalyptic #HughHowey #IntraterrestresRomansNouvellesEtc #legend #PopularFiction #postApocalypticScienceFiction #quote #religion #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionAdventures #sprouted #stories #SubterraneanCivilization #SubterraneanCivilizationFiction #suchAsThese #SurvivalFiction #TheSiloSaga #tookSeed #unless
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Sci-fi has been getting darker and more pessimistic through the decades.
A fascinating website that shows this, with data:
Who killed the world? https://pudding.cool/2024/07/scifi
#SciFi #dystopia #dystopian #dystopias #PostApocalyptic #fiction #ScienceFiction #future #pessimistic #pessimism
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@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
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...essence from #Golding's Lord of the Flies.
#Aristotle had a more balanced view, namely that..."no individual is born good or evil, it is in their choice during their lifetime to be moral or immoral." 2)
While also true, it misses the point of an adverse environment that will break almost anybody, except for some exceptional people like #AlexeiNavalny (#АлексейАнатольевичНавальный,) ...
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@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
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Yes,
however in contrast to the fantasy genre (Conan, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones), science fiction is always based on (sometimes imaginary) science, even a similar saga, #PlanetOfTheApes.In fact, there is one dystopian book missing, which impressed me a lot reading 📚 it in high school, which is most definitely not #SciFi, #WilliamGolding's #LordOfTheFlies: he elegantly...
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It seems to me there is a predilection in modern science fiction to discount all utopias but not to do the same with the dystopias. While I agree that utopias are generally out of reach for societies, there seems to be no balancing idea that dystopias are also out of reach. Indeed, they seem quite obtainable if you are to listen to a lot science fiction.
Personally, I think utopias and dystopias are both out of the question for our society in any near future. The first is too perfect and the latter is too imperfect. What isn’t out of the question is improving and failing societies. Again I think people tend to latch onto the failing societies as the way things are going and dismiss improving societies as impossible fluff.
I think that this is largely the triumph of cynicism over intellectualism. This is where the cynics are considered realistic and thus more important than the intellectuals.
I think that the truth of the matter is that cynicism is easier. It is easier to point out problems than to actually fix them. The intellectual not only thinks of the problem, they provide a possible fix to the problem as well and that is harder. This is why I believe intellectuals deserve praise over cynics. As such I prefer the more optimistic entries in science fiction.
But probably the main reason that I would wish to see dystopian science fiction wiped out as much as possible is because politicians keep trying to use the worst of dystopian SF as something to aspire to. We don’t want big brother and we don’t want the handmaid’s tale. But we are at the risk of getting both at the same time! Some politicians do want this, and are too stupid to think of how to run such a society. So they are inspired by dystopian SF. Quit providing a blueprint!!!!!
If the politicians are successful, then the cynics can say their SF foresaw the future accurately. Which gives them even more street cred. This is why we must say intellectualism over cynicism, improving societies over failing societies and even utopias over dystopias!
#cynicism #cynicismRealism_ #DonTProvideABlueprintToDystopia #dystopias #failingSociety #fixingProblems #gettingBigBrotherAndTheHandmaidSTaleAtTheSameTime_ #IWantDystopianSFWipedOut #impossibleFluff_ #improvingSociety #intellectualism #modernScienceFiction #pointingOutProblems #tooImperfect #tooPerfect #utopias
https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/09/16/dystopias-over-utopias/
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Another article -- this one from 2009. I remember this one. I've been into sci-fi and stuff for a lot of years (the Terminator stuff in this article, Philip K Dick stuff, etc), but I've never wanted to obsess with it or have it make me paranoid or doomy. I even had to back off on a lot of it, other than Star Trek, etc, because it IS so dark, and no sci-fi will ever perfectly predict anything. But this article from 14 years ago is interesting. This kind of talk has been going around for a lot of years and again, NOBODY knows how all of this is gonna end up. And that's what's so weird about it. Anyway. The article from 14 years ago: https://archive.ph/pgDyv
#tech #Singularity #TheSingularity #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #dystopia #dystopian #dystopias #SciFi #Terminator #TheTerminator #future #TheFuture #futurism #robots #robotics #StarTrek #PhilipKDick
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Continued! 🏷️ #decoloniality #CriticalRaceTheory #Posthumanism #Transhumanism #AfroFuturism #IndigenousFuturism #QueerFuturism #Ecology #TEK #Spirituality #Buddhism #YogaPhilosophy #technology #techforgood #utopias #diversity #equity #inclusion #decolonization #writing #Dystopias #AntiCapitalism #Nature #Mythology #ArtHistory #ModernArt #ArtTheory #Art #PerformanceArt #ExperientialArt #ClassicalLiterature (I think that covers pretty much everything!)