I grew up watching a lot of dystopia in sci-fi movies and reading about it in books [View all]

[MrScorpio]

The late sixties and all throughout the seventies gave us some of the best. Thank the Cold War for that.

Then Star Wars and the Star Trek revival came along, as did the feel-good, reactionary era of Reaganism and much of dystopia took a back seat.

The problem is that the dystopics were right all the long. People are recognizing that. Just look in the street.

Now that the media is more corporate owned and less prone to allowing dissent, a watered down version of new dystopia is making a revival. But only for detached entertainment and not as a message, as has been done in the past.

The dystopia of the past now becomes even more important, as some of its predictions of social, economic and environmental decay is coming to pass.

It would have been nice to have cities of glimmering spires and flying cars and all that, but the truth that those who control us would rather not share.