Choose Your Own Dystopia
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:27 pm
Question in question.
I actually love Captain Obviously Meta's idea of a society obsessed with dystopian stories! Can you imagine being a young, happy, generally optimistic and well-adjusted individual who just wants to lead a happy life but lives in a society determined to make heroes out of adolescents in extremely unlikely situations? I don't know why, but this appeals to me. I am seeing it as a hilarious, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy type spoof on dystopian stories. Sounds amazing.
I started writing a kind of dystopian story with a literal grammar police for nanowrimo. That would be taking the prescriptivism in grammar and deterministic ideas about people and statistics ("oh, you're a [ethnicitiy] [social class] [sex]? then you must be X!") present in today's society to an extreme.
So, what flaw in today's society would you pinpoint for a dystopian story?
I actually love Captain Obviously Meta's idea of a society obsessed with dystopian stories! Can you imagine being a young, happy, generally optimistic and well-adjusted individual who just wants to lead a happy life but lives in a society determined to make heroes out of adolescents in extremely unlikely situations? I don't know why, but this appeals to me. I am seeing it as a hilarious, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy type spoof on dystopian stories. Sounds amazing.
I started writing a kind of dystopian story with a literal grammar police for nanowrimo. That would be taking the prescriptivism in grammar and deterministic ideas about people and statistics ("oh, you're a [ethnicitiy] [social class] [sex]? then you must be X!") present in today's society to an extreme.
So, what flaw in today's society would you pinpoint for a dystopian story?