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All Dystopian Stories Ultimately Went Unnoticed
It doesn’t take a social scientist, but only a quick visit on Twitter or a brief exposure to international news to realize, that the world is changing and fast. Change can be a good thing but the road to achieving it can be plastered with awfulness and violence, just like the way to hell is plastered in good intentions. Or so they say. Also, what if we left no stone unturned and then realize: it’s different, but not better. Many revolutions led into a short lived feeling of freedom, only to turn into a hollow promise of things to come and a broken state shortly thereafter.
No matter your stance on hotly discussed topics like the pandemic, global surveillance, tech dependency, lobbying, flat earth, sexuality, cancel culture, social movements, vaccines or your political bias, your privilege, your upbringing, your background and your social cricle — ultimately it’s you who decides how you respond to any sort of outside stimuli. At the heart of our society today and it many failings, still lies the individual. You. Me. It seems the “us versus them” mentality is rearing it’s ugly head once more. Living in Europe, with it’s rich history in major conflicts and the worlds largest atrocity (so far), I’ve been naively raised believing that we’ve ascended beyond this “us…
