How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler
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Date: 2020-08-22
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Argument is what makes us individuals. There will never be a good utopia, because the utopia you believe in may be a dystopia for other people. For example, think of Heaven. What is needed to achieve Heaven? The power to unlimited happiness and no pain? To achieve happiness, must there be agreement and harmony? If there is no pain, how will we recognize happiness? How will we recognize if we are going to be happy or not? If there is agreement and harmony, what happens to individuality? In human society individuality is a part of human lives. Will we be truly happy? Then what about the opposite? What is needed to achieve a dystopia? What is needed to achieve a dystopia? The power of unlimited sadness and pain? To achieve sadness, one must make another sad to make this happen, but what if everyone is so sad that no one will bother to make any others sad? What about pain? To have pain is also to understand others, and with understanding others, will that make the ideal dystopia completely a dystopia? And what about growing and developing? To develop is to change, and if you develop to be someone great, will others believe this greatness is great or believe this greatness you have already is falling? The topic of dystopias and utopias are advanced and simple at the same time, and even myself has an opinion. Who knows? I could be wrong, I could be right, but what makes wrong? And what makes right? And that is the magic of questions.
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Argument is what makes us individuals. There will never be a good utopia, because the utopia you believe in may be a dystopia for other people. For example, think of Heaven. What is needed to achieve Heaven? The power to unlimited happiness and no pain? To achieve happiness, must there be agreement and harmony? If there is no pain, how will we recognize happiness? How will we recognize if we are going to be happy or not? If there is agreement and harmony, what happens to individuality? In human society individuality is a part of human lives. Will we be truly happy? Then what about the opposite? What is needed to achieve a dystopia? What is needed to achieve a dystopia? The power of unlimited sadness and pain? To achieve sadness, one must make another sad to make this happen, but what if everyone is so sad that no one will bother to make any others sad? What about pain? To have pain is also to understand others, and with understanding others, will that make the ideal dystopia completely a dystopia? And what about growing and developing? To develop is to change, and if you develop to be someone great, will others believe this greatness is great or believe this greatness you have already is falling? The topic of dystopias and utopias are advanced and simple at the same time, and even myself has an opinion. Who knows? I could be wrong, I could be right, but what makes wrong? And what makes right? And that is the magic of questions.
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Graham
Too bad the video got the Swift material wrong. Gulliver's Travels' flying island of Laputa is an anti-utopia, not a dystopia. In addition, the video didn't explain that More's Utopia is a word play for eu + topos = good place and ou + topos = no place, part of the satirical project that the good place is a no place. And while it is obviously not possible to cover every text in the evolution of the dystopia, it is puzzling why E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops (1909) was skipped in the early coverage. And the problem with any video of this nature is it doesn't pay sufficient attention to the intricacies of the genre. For example, The Handmaid's Tale and V for Vendetta are critical dystopias, not purely dystopias, and this type of nuance is needed.
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Too bad the video got the Swift material wrong. Gulliver's Travels' flying island of Laputa is an anti-utopia, not a dystopia. In addition, the video didn't explain that More's Utopia is a word play for eu + topos = good place and ou + topos = no place, part of the satirical project that the good place is a no place. And while it is obviously not possible to cover every text in the evolution of the dystopia, it is puzzling why E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops (1909) was skipped in the early coverage. And the problem with any video of this nature is it doesn't pay sufficient attention to the intricacies of the genre. For example, The Handmaid's Tale and V for Vendetta are critical dystopias, not purely dystopias, and this type of nuance is needed.
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Leslie
One thing to keep in mind is that it isn't humanity who are to blame for this but the people in leadership positions, or more closer to the truth, the 1% who control the politicians. Ordinary people generally want life to be peaceful and to just have enough money instead of billions of dollars. Did ordinary people start all the devastating wars on the planet? No it is the egotists, narcissists and psychopaths. Things are too entrenched and not truly fixable. It would take a massive calamity for this world to change and even then it is in danger of egotist zealots taking over.
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One thing to keep in mind is that it isn't humanity who are to blame for this but the people in leadership positions, or more closer to the truth, the 1% who control the politicians. Ordinary people generally want life to be peaceful and to just have enough money instead of billions of dollars. Did ordinary people start all the devastating wars on the planet? No it is the egotists, narcissists and psychopaths. Things are too entrenched and not truly fixable. It would take a massive calamity for this world to change and even then it is in danger of egotist zealots taking over.
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Sun
When the narrator mentioned Laputa I instantly thought of Castle in the Sky animated by Studio Ghibli.
I also saw the Hunger Games reference.
My first experience with Dystopian was the Giver by Lois Lowry. Next was watching some of the first Hunger Games movie. And then I read the Divergent series.
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When the narrator mentioned Laputa I instantly thought of Castle in the Sky animated by Studio Ghibli.
I also saw the Hunger Games reference.
My first experience with Dystopian was the Giver by Lois Lowry. Next was watching some of the first Hunger Games movie. And then I read the Divergent series.
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Jordan
Utopia itself being no place makes sense, they knew from the beginning it could be nothing more than a thought experiment, every attempt at utopia fails and becomes a dystopia. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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Utopia itself being no place makes sense, they knew from the beginning it could be nothing more than a thought experiment, every attempt at utopia fails and becomes a dystopia. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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NMTele
Title: How to Recognize a Dystopia
goes on google and looks at all the news
Yeah. I'm pretty sure I can easily recognize a dystopian society.
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Title: How to Recognize a Dystopia
goes on google and looks at all the news
Yeah. I'm pretty sure I can easily recognize a dystopian society.
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Wilson
I know.
Nazism: rasist and opressive
Communism: reactionist and anti-freedom
Capitalism: secretist and makes money a racing
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I know.
Nazism: rasist and opressive
Communism: reactionist and anti-freedom
Capitalism: secretist and makes money a racing
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Angelus
Dear anyone who thinks that America is Just like 1984 it's not. If it was you'd be marched off for merely saying that.
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Dear anyone who thinks that America is Just like 1984 it's not. If it was you'd be marched off for merely saying that.
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