The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
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Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.
I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.
Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
The future is always a dystopia in movies.
In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.
I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media's coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don't know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story.
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.
In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.
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