Why we shouldn't fill our minds with endless tales of dystopia

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Unrealistic fantasies of the apocalypse are everywhere, but focusing connected a perchance disastrous aboriginal stops america from making coagulated plans, says Annalee Newitz

By Annalee Newitz

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IF YOU person ever watched Black Mirror oregon The Last of Us – oregon work the comic publication 2000AD, wherever Judge Dredd was calved – you person experienced the joyousness and fearfulness of dystopian subject fiction.

Dystopia is simply a spot wherever determination is nary mercy, nary quality and nary hope. Its skies are achromatic with contamination and warlords regularisation the anemic with unit and frenetic, high-tech propaganda. Like Thomas More’s Utopia, dystopia is simply a phantasy place. Yet, implicit the past decade, galore satellite leaders person treated dystopia arsenic a realistic imaginativeness of our future, 1 we should usage arsenic an inspiration for …

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