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This is kind of a dark reflection of the veil of ignorance.
As for which one I'd want... Maybe Brave New World? It's not wildly different in some ways from our own world but basically everyone except for the ones on the 'reservations' seems to have their physical and emotional needs met, just in a 'monkey's paw wish' way. Probably one of the least horrible dystopias for the actual residents.
Animal Crossing.
Multiplayer concessions aside, you’re the last human alive and you’re an attraction for anthropomorphic animals who bend over backwards to keep you happy, while a tanuki (Japanese folklore, basically a raccoon/dog thing) charges you a made up currency with no interest or late penalties to pay off your lavish home, with the made up currency super easy to obtain.
By far the nicest dystopia out there.
Tanuki aren't folklore:
Huh. So there is one that is a mythological creature (Bake-danuki) and the tanuki itself is real, but anthropomorphic versions of it are folklore. Interesting, I didn't know there was a real breed as well. Neat.
wow, I have to try that
1969, the 1984 porn parody.
I made that up just now, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't exist somewhere.
Big brother loves you!
Children of Men, except I'm the last fertile male. The weight of the responsibility would be crushing, but I'd carry on for humanity's sake.
Actual cyberpunk would be horrible, but at least you’ll look cool.
Actual cyberpunk is actually looking better than the trajectory of reality because a cornerstone of cyberpunk dystopias are populations so large there are plenty of tucked away places to make some semblance of a life for yourself outside of the prying eyes of big brother. There’s still enough privacy left intact for seedy underbellies to exist.
Tell him to go fuck himself. He already absolved us of our sins when he died.
I don't think Brave New World is a dystopia, but that seems to be a minority opinion, so can I choose that?
As long as you end up as a beta. I don't want to be an alpha. They have to work so much because they're so much smarter than me. I am glad that I'm a beta. I am so much better than a gamma.
Same here, yes the government is totalitarian but its foremost goal is to provide people with everything they need for a blissful life.
On a moral level the crippling of a fetus to create a lower class human is horrifying. And I don't think a society like this could ever exist because someone somewhere is going to mess it up for personal gain. But as a thought experiment? Yeah, definitely not a dystopia.
I mean, the point of the book was that a society where every physical human need was taken care of was still a dystopia if the spiritual needs for independence and free thinking were supressed
The need for independence and free thinking is still met, though. The enclaves are setup specifically for this purpose.
This one, I'm used to it
Better the devil, you know.
Cyberpunk. I'm putting my consciousness in the net
Done. It's the shitty cyberpunk version where a copy of your mind is put on the web, killing you in the process.
I mean, it's effectively the same thing as just going to sleep and waking up in the web.
To the version of your mind that's on the web, yes. To the version of your mind that pilots your meat suit, nothing but the void.
Fine I with me
we all be the homeless the hero types who might upload conciousness passes by.
So long as I don't remember the plot/ending and such and don't get to bare witness to that end, I feel like that one 70s movie about the underground city where "old" ( I wanna say 30yrs old ) people get killed in a ceremony and get replaced by a computer AI controlled incubated baby wouldn't be the worst. Hell, if I had no clue anything was wrong, I wouldn't have anything to complain about. Besides maybe the fact I only get maybe 30 years before being killed.
Edit:
Logan's Run! That's the name of it! Had to look it up because I am dumb.
The Giver is a dystopia and it was still very chill.
Also if I'm honest Divergent seemed pretty chill in the first book.
Me being a twin makes me really not want to live in The Giver lol.
Oh yeah I forgot about that aspect 😅😮💨
For some reason that scene stuck with me lmao!
At least in the world of Cyberpunk Red I could have the body I really want thanks to Bioexotic Cyberware.
Weirdmageddon!
so we are looking for the least hellish hell?
Does zombie apocalypse count as dystopia? I'd go with that.
You would be a zombie
as punishment they they shall live in a godless world
Who tf would wanna watch over us anyways?
probably a sadist
Is this your way of telling us that we're seeing the rise of the distopian world that you told God to create?
Im gonna guess I don't get to choose my role in this dystopia if it's one with a class divide or aliens or somesuch.. im gonna ask as a followup if I pick a dystopia based on a piece of media, if the events that occur within it would also occur in this scenario, or is it just dystopia inspired by it, but not necessarily following the events?
As for your role, it is up to fate. The scenarios don't have to play out exactly as they did in the media.
Damn. Well my first idea was picking Overlord, as that's definitely a dystopia (constant smog from pollution, extreme work hours etc.) but eventually the main character ends up in a different world (which is still kinda bad tbf, being basically medieval with magic) but I feel like given the circumstances I could end up decently high societally in it.. but if there's no guarantee that entering that other world would happen, then that just straight up sucks :3
Honestly the easiest answer is probably some form of dystopia with a pacified but content general populace, like Fahrenheit 451, though that's also the "boring" one, as there's no real gamble for ending up in a higher or less dystopian position
I'm a Morlock by attitude and choice. I train young people who want to be engineers to also be Morlocks.
1980 this world?
Oh the absolute worst one. Everyone gets locked in eternal solitary confinement with no lights, no touch, you don't know if your whole body's gone numb or there just isn't even ground beneath your non existent feet. When you try to touch yourself there's nothing there and yet you are painstakingly aware of somehow existing. Every nanosecond feels like an eternity and you're constantly being flayed, drowning, burned alive, raped, and jump scared by the worse horrors you never imagined could possibly exist. You never ever pass out or sleep or have any form of respite except to give you context to your indescribable suffering. You hold only so much memory as to know there once was a time so much better than this, and you never figure out that you're dead/immortal because that might cause you to become psychologically numb to it, so even that you don't have going for you.
Anyways, yes, the worst one, that one. I choose that one.
