In many novels, a popular thematic subject and setting is the dystopian society -- seen for example, in Brave New World, 1984, The Hunger Games, The Giver, and Fahrenheit 451. In these stories, the characters have seemingly been stripped of their free will as a totalitarian state rules over the people, making the best choices for its citizens, and controlling all aspects of life. These novels are often interpreted as warnings that we, in the real world, will eventually face this reality.
Do you think that one day in the future, humans will be in a dystopian society, where there is no freedom? Are we slipping down that slope now? When will we hit the breaking point?
yes. look closely at our own society and politics, we're giving up our own free will in a desire to be safe from danger that eventually we won't have any free will to run away from danger in the first place.
it may not get that excessive, but our freedoms will be stripped from us if we keep going down this path.
Yeah, but it we wouldn't be as aware of it. It'll happen without our awareness.
It pretty much already is if you look at the media dictating what is right and wrong for us. "Freedom" is something we're told to believe we have but if you actually look at the capitalist government, we have none.
You people know nothing about living in a totalitarian society, let alone a dystopian one. Unless there is some new world takeover, no it will not be happening anytime soon
It wouldn't happen until the next massive society-changing technological breakthrough happened.
I doubt it'll happen any time soon, if at all. Current government are too invested in keeping their power, and civilians are too scared of what would happened without them entirely.
There's already dystopia in the world. There's also utopia. It's all relative.
