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ITT: Every Dystopia as a minor expansion on H.G. Wells' The Time Machine 2016-12-11 10:57:59 Post No. 8829930
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2016-12-11 10:57:59
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It contained two classes, a stupid and unaware class, and a smarter controlling class. An apparent utopia that turns out dystopian. Control of the lower class through artificial lowering of intelligence. An empty, simple, thoughtless lifestyle. Futurism.
Every dystopian novel since has contained most or all of these themes, in a similarly structured society. In this thread, we will look at what different authors have contributed through retellings of this story.
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>>8829930
Added drugs to calm and pacify the lower class, and direct technological manipulation of the species, as opposed to Wells' natural divergence. A benevolent upper class, which knowingly and willingly sacrificed their happiness for the good of society and the preservation of intellectualism.
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>>8829947
forgot to mention made it extremely applicable to our society
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Not all the dystopian novels contain two classes, one of which controlling the other
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>>8829930
Shows the process of the transformation. Language control, paranoia, no trust, spying, surveillance, eternal war requiring extreme nationalism.
Obvious warning about fascism.
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>>8829950
Please give an example, I'd like to here about those.
>>8829930
Simplified a real world situation to show what went wrong and what the threats were and what to look for. Confused people. Danced with the role of capitalism as a drivign force for a corpocracy dystopia.
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>>8829968
Pasquale Festa Campanile - Conviene far bene l'amore
(Translated it sounds like "We'd better make love right")
Dystopian novel from 1975, Italy, about the depletion of energy sources in early 2000s and the consequent breakdown of society, that lives in the dark and without machines. A scientist, based on the theories of Whilelm Reich, discovers that energy can be produced by genitals activity. Being necessary, sex becomes the new proletarian work, the new engine of progress and the currency of capitalism, with a complete reversal of all the moral and cultural values we've ever had. Love and tenderness are crimes, nudity is obligatory and privacy is no longer the same.
As you can see, the depicted society is basically the same in which we live nowadays, but with a different set of values. The controlling class is still the capitalist class -- but nothing like the totalitarianism of 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 or some other novels from the last years. And yet it's a very, very dystopic book.
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