#Dystopian

Peter W. Singer

Thoughtful Response by @intelwire to our essay on the positive side of dystopian fictionhttps://slate.com/technology/2020/07/dystopian-fiction-coronavirus-pandemic.htmlThink our primary divergence would be 1) categorization (what is in it o

3. For English, we had to read English literature. A big genre within English literature were dystopian novels. A dystopia is basically a government controlled society where you just get

Curwen Ares Rolinson

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Why is New Zealand's pandemic response (as of a few months ago, might I add) being blasted across Fox News in the US and presented as some sort of dystopian

"The US hasn't had, as a nation, a collective mourning for the victims of this pandemic. We haven't had a lowering of the flag. We've had none of the symbolic

Peter Gabriel Benevides

peter_benevides

Here is a PSA, we are not living in an autocratic regime! For those who believe the current public health measures are similar to the dystopian 1984, I have a

Eduard Habsburg

THREAD: on reading A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ for the first time. This is a classic dystopian future novel from 1959 - with a Catholic twist. Best of you don't know

𝑅𝓊𝓀𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒾 ☀️🌻

A thread of good books to read in quarantine! -Call Me by Your Name An Oscar nominated film as well. Personally one of my favourite books. If you like great

Minor drug-fueled rant incoming.But can we stop with the wholesale dismissal of dystopian fiction? I'm seeing this most often, quite frankly, from reviewers & fans of significant privilege -- white,

Elizabeth Hackett

None of the 20somethings wandering the grocery store wear masks and I'm like, aren't you the dicks who made dystopian books bestsellers? You can make a mask from a T-shirt.

It's a dystopian kind of weirdness walking down an empty high street with a large fake bamboo plant hoping to god the police are patrolling the other end of it

Bravo. Federal district court today: “On Holy Thursday, an American mayor criminalized the communal celebration of Easter. That sentence is one that this Court never expected to see outside the

Placenta Perm 💁🏿‍♂️

Obviously it's got positive intent but starting to find our 8pm Communal Clapping Ritual lowkey dystopian. A nearby church rang its bells today and it felt apocalyptic like The Purge

View From The Desert

I keep seeing Bernie Sanders and his followers saying Joe Biden must do this or must do that if he is to get their support in the election in November.

I am ToRe 🎙️

Our @realDonaldTrump really needs a good strategy team by his side to decide how to move forward. I would like to be bold enough to recommend an ATG strategy. #Thread

Anyone else ever read that short story in school about the dystopian society where people wear like handicap bracelets or something to suppress thier "talents" and at the end the

𝗝.𝗠. 𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗥 #readoptimal

Is dystopian fiction good for society? Time for a THREAD! The proximate cause of this thread is the following article by @peterwsinger @august_cole whose #burninbook you should check out, if