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Posted by Scott Denham on December 07, 1999 at 21:12:27:
In Reply to: My utopia is your dystopia, drop by sometime! posted by Black Bile on September 25, 1999 at 12:43:21:
Speaking of great Dystopian books, We (by Yevgeny Zamyatin), 1984 (Orwell), and A Brave New World (Huxley) are all pretty much exactly the same story. I love them all, personally. The reason they give a bleak representation of the future is because they feel that that is the direction the world is going and they want to give a warning. Now, to say that authors in general have a pessimistic view of the future is just stupid. After all we have Star Wars, Star Trek (btw, is full of Commie propaganda too), etc. It's just that the more philosophical people of the world tend to be pessimistic. Just look at the Existentialists. Sartre's Nausea is the perfect example. Plus it's just really good. Also things in the same Vein as the Dystopian books are books like Invitation to a Beheading (Nabokov) and The Trial (Kafka). While not showing all of society they instead show a surrealistic view of injustice and misunderstanding. If you ever have the time (and who does?) go read them, they're good, and Nabokov is just hilarious. Anyway, I tend to ramble.