Like say the world was ruled by vampires, werewolves, or mages which supernatural group do you think would lead to the worst dystopia. Here's a video on dystopias for so info.
My latest futurism article on Medium, about one of the possible futures awaiting us. It's been widely speculated that immortality is just decades away, so it's possible many of us will get to see it. Medium is an ad-free paid publication but the "friends-link" below lets you bypass the paywall. Enjoyβπ»π
https://medium.com/predict/c01ea0bcd914?source=friends_link&sk=f8684efe5ccbee0680fdd43e68a43209
So many dystopian novels and subsequent movies have come out in the last decade or so. Yet it never occurred to me until last night that we have actually been living in our own dystopia this entire time. Mind blown.
Anywhere you go, you see dogs. Mixed-breed dogs that came from dog breeding/fighting are piled up in shelters waiting to get repackaged into "a nice family gift for the kids" without repercussions. A fellow human dies from a dog attack, namely shelter mixed breed every couple of days. You go on the internet, you try to say what you think about the situations you witnessed, you get shunned, stalked, or worse threatened. You go on dating sites, almost everyone has one of them, and almost everyone says they are THE perfect creature that cannot fault on its own. A pure, an angelic creature that gives unconditional love. Sometimes, you feel like you are the only person who feel this way. Sometimes, in some circumstances, you feel it's either you are crazy or everyone else is.
Are we living in a somewhat "doggie dystopia"? The more I see the more I feel like all of this dog craziness is kind of close to a dystopic world with dogs as some kind of societal totum - cannot be criticized, cannot be hurt in any sort of way; while at the same time children in need are still in lack of our attention, world wide. A dystopia is full of injustices and undesirable living space - that is the case when you are surrounded by intruding dogs with their inconsiderate enablers.
Sorry about any grammar issues, english is my second language.
It's only been in relatively couple of years that I've actually been doing research on the actual conditions of the average USSR citizen, and it's basically the exact opposite of what I was taught in all my years in school.
Pretty much any history teacher, when describing it, the general comparison was to nazi germany, except "In nazi germany the people at least had food." (Verbatim quote from my world history teacher my senior year).
For the most part when I was in school I had assumed that the red scare esque shit was largely a thing of the past, and that modern public education was at least somewhat nuanced about it.
But no, we weren't even taught about any actual soviet warcrimes or the actual bad shit they did. They just claimed everyone was starving and that everyone that lived there absolutely hated it. That's why glorious leader mr.reagan told them to not be communist, and they were so inspired by him telling them not to be communist, that they all decided to not be communist anymore.
Curiously, we weren't taught anything about what happened in russia afterwards for some reason.
Anybody else have similar experiences with american public education? Possibly different?
T. 18 year old zoomer who grew up in a begotten deep south shithole
Hi all, I've read the books twice, once in highschool, more than 10 years ago, and a second time before the 2021 movie came out (though now only the first 3). After the second reading, watching the movie, and reading commentaries here and there, including this subreddit, i've come to the realization that the Dune universe is actually a very grim dystopia. I've had this thought before, but i was distracted by the details in the books, and the characters, and didn't give a deeper thought to it. The message is very clear however, if you look.
Most of the planets (if not all) are led by a medieval feudal style leadership. There definitely isn't a lot of freedom (if any) in this universe, social and physical travel to other planets is reserved usually for the richest people and their entourage and followers. The work that has to be done since computers and robots are missing must be backbreaking, if the mining of the most precious material in the universe had to be done with people present and it was so dangerous, imagine the conditions of workers in iron, copper, lithium etc. mines, where the payoff would be next to nothing compared to spice. There is no system in place to protect the common folk from abuses of the aristocracy/great houses/choam etc.
The butlerian jihad, done under the pretense of freeing mankind, all but enslaved it. Sure, there are some "witches" at the top, mentats, and some (god) emperors who benefit from it: they have a neverending supply of slave like labor and pliable followers. The jihad benefited the upper classes the most, cementing their rule over the lower classes who are left to do backbreaking work, without any possibility of development. The rich and the most powerful take their spice drugs and dream and travel without moving and see the future, but the majority of humanity is just farming dirt. A computer, a thinking machine, can be a tool in anyone's hand. A mentat brain, or a bene gesserit, is a tool only for the master, in case of the former, or for their own organization, in case of the latter. For all the talk about the good it did, i don't see how the average human benefited from the butlerian jihad. What if the story about humanity's potential being unlocked by the jihad is just history written by the victors in what was a civil and religious war?
We then have the golden path, for which billions are to die, all based on a drug trip by the religious and political leaders of the time. How exactly is an average human's
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