scholar_farmer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://meow.social/@sorenfox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sorenfox</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> "Radicalized" is a dark, dark story, and I say that as a regular consumer of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopias</span></a>. Such a convincing rhythm to the narrative, and such a diagnostic of contemporary ills. I'm glad I took the time for it; thanks for sharing!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
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Richard Rathe<p>The Dispossessed</p><p>"Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Novel about Utopian Anarchists Is as Relevant as Ever"</p><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/book-review-fifty-years-later-ursula-k-le-guins-novel-about-utopian/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/book-review-fifty-years-later-ursula-k-le-guins-novel-about-utopian/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Utopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utopias</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a></p>
Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 <p>🥥 The modern Cassandras: Brilliant women of color who started warning about the dangers of generative AI years before anyone else seemed to notice. Unfortunately, hardly anyone was listening, and nothing speaks louder than money in a winner-takes-all economy run by dead-inside tech bros and marketing monsters.<br><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/culture/cultu</span><span class="invisible">re-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/</span></a><br>🥥<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cassandras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cassandras</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RollingStone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RollingStone</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuckersBalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TuckersBalls</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>#1984 <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FanFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FanFiction</span></a>: "Orwell's readers experience all of 1984 through Winston's eyes and are encouraged to trust his assessment of his situation. But Newman brings in a second point of view, that of Julia, who is indeed far more worldly than Winston. But that's not because she's younger than him – it's because she's more provincial. Julia, we learn, grew up outside of the Home Counties, where the revolution was incomplete and where dissidents – like her parents – were sent into exile. Julia has experienced the periphery of the Party's power, the places where it is frayed and incomplete. For Julia, the Party may be ruthless and powerful, but it's hardly omnicompetent. Indeed, it's rather fumbling.</p><p>Which makes sense. After all, if we take Winston at his word and assume that every disloyal citizen of Oceania is arrested, tortured and murdered, where would that leave Oceania? Even Kim Jong Un can't murder everyone who hates him, or he'd get awfully lonely, and then awfully hungry.</p><p>Through Julia's eyes, we experience Oceania as a paranoid autocracy, corrupt and twitchy. We witness the obvious corollary of a culture of denunciation and arrest: the ruling Party of such an institution must be riddled with internecine struggle and backstabbing, to the point of paralyzed dysfunction."</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/28/novel-writing-machines/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2024/09/28/nov</span><span class="invisible">el-writing-machines/</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://swiss.social/@evelynefoerster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>evelynefoerster</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>VeroniqueB99</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@si_irini" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>si_irini</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@MaJ1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MaJ1</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mattotcha" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mattotcha</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://berlin.social/@mina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mina</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://astrodon.space/author/2ndstar/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>2ndStar</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@energiepirat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>energiepirat</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tooting.ch/@SilviaMarton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SilviaMarton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.net2o.de/@forthy42" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>forthy42</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GreenFire</span></a></span> </p><p>(2/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fahrenheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fahrenheit</span></a> 451, however, it is but one of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopias</span></a> that seem to be becoming reality in many countries. Here are some:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110432256287101216" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1104</span><span class="invisible">32256287101216</span></a></p>
E.G. Condé | Author<p>"Dystopian fiction often makes revolution look easy - thrilling too...in so many fictional contexts, a Big Bad Order can be brought to its knees by a motley young crew, and then the work is done....SORDIDEZ... is not such a story."<br>- <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@MLClark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MLClark</span></a></span> </p><p>Absolutely mind-blowing & brilliant 🤯 review of my book is up at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@StrangeHorizons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>StrangeHorizons</span></a></span> </p><p>I'm so grateful! Hahóm 🙏🏼🇵🇷🪶<br><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/indigenousliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenousliterature</span></a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/sciencefictionbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefictionbook</span></a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>review</span></a> <br><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> </p><p><a href="http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/sordidez-by-e-g-conde/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">strangehorizons.com/non-fictio</span><span class="invisible">n/sordidez-by-e-g-conde/</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://esq.social/@CarlG" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CarlG</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Legal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediLaw</span></a> </p><p>(3/n)</p><p>...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopias</span></a> simultaneously: #1984 and, more pertinent in this context, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnimalFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnimalFarm</span></a>. Seen from this novel's perspective, aspiring to be the One Animal [that] Is more equal Than Others makes perfect sense. It even strongly appeals to the lowest human instincts.</p><p>I have long thought that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DefundThePolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefundThePolice</span></a> doesn’t have any merit, except for anarchists waiting for the breakdown of civil society to loot shops, etc.</p><p>I have...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p><p>(11/n)</p><p>...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> is completely out of "control," and we continue to fight in wars, and even better, start new ones almost every year?<br>We humans, collectively, are still the savages that we have always been. <br>But in contrast to the fairytale, The Emperor's New Clothes, our clothes are not imaginary but costumes that mask our savage nature. It is but a thin veil. <br>Looking at Gaza +Ukraine, among others, a very thin veil, indeed.<br>//</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p><p>(10/n)</p><p>...who are unbreakable. </p><p>I'm adding to these original thoughts the idea that we, as a race, carry our own seed of destruction within us. </p><p>We, as a society, were never really able to shake off the vestiges of that ignoble savage within us that served us so well while life was "uncivilized." </p><p>Now, this savagery turns ever more against us. <br>I mean, the...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p><p>(9/n)</p><p>...essence from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Golding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Golding</span></a>'s Lord of the Flies.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aristotle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aristotle</span></a> had a more balanced view, namely that..."no individual is born good or evil, it is in their choice during their lifetime to be moral or immoral." 2)</p><p>While also true, it misses the point of an adverse environment that will break almost anybody, except for some exceptional people like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlexeiNavalny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlexeiNavalny</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>АлексейАнатольевичНавальный</span></a>,) ...</p><p>...2)<br><a href="https://medium.com/@NoelleCondy/how-and-why-does-rousseau-argue-that-man-is-naturally-good-or-evil-e755714b75e3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@NoelleCondy/how-an</span><span class="invisible">d-why-does-rousseau-argue-that-man-is-naturally-good-or-evil-e755714b75e3</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p><p>(8/n)</p><p>...argues that humans are naturally good, and that injustice is caused by civil society." 1) </p><p>While the latter is true, the former assumption is incorrect, as I have tried to show by means of the extinction-level events we humans have been bequeathing on our genetic brethren, and the animals in our garden that we should have been taking care of, as well as the..</p><p>1)<br><a href="https://people.tamu.edu/~sdaniel/Rousseau%20Social%20Contract.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">people.tamu.edu/~sdaniel/Rouss</span><span class="invisible">eau%20Social%20Contract.pdf</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p><p>(8/n)</p><p>...endless and ultimately senseless wars, brothers against brothers (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WarInUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarInUkraine</span></a>,) and neighbor against neighbor (MiddleEastWar.)</p><p>Conclusion:<br>The Lord of The Flies doesn’t only belong in the Venn diagram, it actually should be the cornerstone of a 3D version to be constructed. (That'd be something for my friend <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://berlin.social/@mina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mina</span></a></span> sci-fy pro and math wizard 😉.)</p><p>"In his Discourse on the Inequality Among Men (1755), [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rousseau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rousseau</span></a>]...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p><p>(7/n)</p><p>...anthropologist: homo sapiens has literally exterminated any other human being (like the Neanderthals) that might have become dangerous. Collectively, not individually, humans carry the seed of their own destruction in them. </p><p>Now, that we have "conquered the earth," have destroyed any number of wild animals that might have threatened us significantly, so that they became extent, we have been turning on each other in...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a><br>(6/n)</p><p>Actually, giving it a second round of contemplation, though not chronologically, but evolutionarily speaking, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordOfTheFlies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordOfTheFlies</span></a> points to the root of all evil: humanity. It is the philosophical antipode of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JeanJacqueRouseau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeanJacqueRouseau</span></a>'s concept of a "noble savage."<br>No, savages are not noble, they are just savage, they fight for their survival every day and every hour. And, I daresay from what I have read as a layman, not an...<br> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p><p>(5/5)</p><p>...phalanx of prime negative <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/utopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>utopian</span></a>, I think (and once had a list of in a Mastodon post,) in particular <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheMatrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMatrix</span></a>, and Asimov's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheCompleteRobot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheCompleteRobot</span></a>.<br>(There are some others I mentioned in this thread/convo of mine, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109894787077782438" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1098</span><span class="invisible">94787077782438</span></a>).</p><p>[If I find that list again, I'll post an update right here.]</p><p>//</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p><p>(4/n)</p><p>...their (spitting) mirror image how defunct and amoral it had become.</p><p>There are probably more novels like this, I just can't think of any right now. (And, no, H.G. Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau" is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Horror</span></a>, neither fantasy, nor sci-fi. 😉)</p><p>But, hell yes, it does belong!<br>There are even several others that definitely would need to be added to this...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p><p>(3/n)</p><p>...disects the laughably thin layer of civilization that we have accumulated since the Stone Age.</p><p>In contrast, Orwell's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnimalFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnimalFarm</span></a> never strives to scientifically explain why the animals on the Farm behave like human beings because it is an ancient way of telling a fairy tale. It isn't even fantasy (no magic weapon with which a quest to fulfill, etc.,) but a modern fairy tale used to show society...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@philip_cardella" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philip_cardella</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geekdom.social/@carturo222" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carturo222</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://left-tusk.com/@obot50549535" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>obot50549535</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a></p><p>(2/n)</p><p>Yes,<br>however in contrast to the fantasy genre (Conan, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones), science fiction is always based on (sometimes imaginary) science, even a similar saga, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlanetOfTheApes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetOfTheApes</span></a>.</p><p>In fact, there is one dystopian book missing, which impressed me a lot reading 📚 it in high school, which is most definitely not <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WilliamGolding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WilliamGolding</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordOfTheFlies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordOfTheFlies</span></a>: he elegantly...</p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopias</span></a>: "Science fiction, therefore, does not develop in accordance with the scientific method. It develops by popular entertainers trying to attract a bigger audience by pandering to them. The audience today includes billionaires who read science fiction in their childhood and who appear unaware of the ideological underpinnings of their youthful entertainment: elitism, “scientific” racism, eugenics, fascism and a blithe belief today in technology as the solution to societal problems."</p><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/</span></a></p>
Richard Littler<p>While I'm working on my own writing, I needed some escapism, so I've been revisiting John Wyndham. I've read The Chrysalids, The Day of the Triffids and Chocky in the past couple of weeks. I think I'm enjoying his books more now than I did when I was younger. I do love a cosy, comforting dystopia. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dystopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopias</span></a></p>
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