When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
We grow up, and we need to confront a society to be fit in.
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.
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.
A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.
When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.
I think of dystopian as 'Mad Max,' as 'Book of Eli,' as the world is ending.
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.