What’s the other option?
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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I’ve read history. I know what actual dystopian nightmares look like. We’re not in one.
"Things can always get worse" is a pretty shit justification to say things aren't bad now.
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History does not only repeat, and simply looking at the past can make you blind to the novel ways society has transformed. For example, oppression has been a constant throughout history, but it never has been as faceless as it is today. Lords and kings have been replaced by corporations and agencies operating across borders, in ways and with purposes that I don't think anyone who's not actually involved with can claim they fully understand.
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I think this vision usually comes to be when people aren't aware of how much worse other people have it, or how much worse was in the past.
Sure nowdays there are a lot of terrible things happening, but we have the best tools ever to fix them.
The world needs a bit more of optimism, the only way we can start fixing our problems is acting like we can.
It is Nice not having to worry the black lung.
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What other dimension can we go to?
We live here
That's because a lot of people are profiting from things being the way they are. And the rest of them are too scared and traumatized to risk saying anything.
It's always been terrible, this the best we've had, and it's still still terrible.
Reminded me of this:
https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better
I'm still to pessimistic to feel hopeful by this, but maybe someone else can :)
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In a lot of ways yes this is the best humanity has ever had, but it's also the first time we've had the means to completely eradicate life on earth, and still seen to be barreling towards it. (If you consider the last 80 or so years to be "now")
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First world graffiti-mask-profile-picture cringe.
Everyone just keeps acting like its normal
That's a common trope in dystopian settings.
The youngest people in the society don't understand that anything is even wrong. The rich folks have a vested interest in people being more afraid of foreigners and domestic terrorists than any government malfeasance. And the working class is so occupied with simple survival that they see no real opportunity to revolt... until something really falls off the rails, at which point the military moves in to suppress dissent with maximum bloodshed.
I feel like this describes pretty much every western society since we moved beyond tribalism.
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In those dystopia settings however, they never seem to have all the literature describing dystopia. We do here
Eh, it depends on the author. I've seen a lot of modern Post-Apocalypse/Cyberpunk stuff make comedic quasi-self-references by way of media-within-the-media (A piece of modern literature in the Fallout setting describing a "dystopian" world in the self-proclaimed utopian Vaults, for instance).
But the point of the media-within-the-media is often to illustrate how we fixate on the drama of dystopia without acknowledging the banality of social evils.
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