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No, because it isn't even close to real distopia. Especially for people in most rich nations.
Distopias can take many different forms, you haven't felt the boundaries because you haven't stretched. Also I recommend the book "brave new world" for a view of a distopia that doesn't oppress with power but softer means.
Have you read your recommended book? The whole story is about overt oppression, caste-based systems, dehumanization, not about softer means. If by different forms you are saying that dystopias are often flawed utopias, then our own isn't utopic at all, we just live in the least bad times in all history.
By softer means I ment softer than what usually people picture when they think of distopia and that in my experience is 1984 by Orwell. Yes in brave new world there is a class system and all other listed flaws, but decention is not delt with by force, but by propaganda, ridicule and endless distractions. In other words the main tool of oppression is not the stick but the carrot.
You do understand that a book is about the most priveleged caste? You can't have rigid caste society with soft oppression and carrots without sticks.
You can by using:
Also drugs. It is stated in the book, several times, have you read it?
A boring Dystopia.
That's subjective, obviously.
I imagine being a migrant in the US right now would feel pretty dystopian.
Lol, that's what I'm talking about, people in rich nations have absolutely warped idea of how really bad things can be (no I'm not diminishing suffering of migrants in US) and actually are for majority of himan population. We are living in the best, most abundand, most free and happy stretch of human history.
To be fair, the post also states “our world” and not “my privileged Western society”.
That's the thing people all over the world live better then ever, for example number of people that are affected by hunger is less then 10% globally, and the number goes down if slowly. It's getting better, not worse, this 'the end is nigh' attitude is wrong, people are freer and richer and have a lot more opportunities even in the most oppressive regimes and in the most remote tegions.
People in the US are dramatically less free and less wealthy than they were a decade ago.
Get fucked, LLM slob.
What?