Utopia is Dystopia

People are afraid of dystopias and want a utopia. But in reality, they were originally the same thing.

[voxelking]

Utopia is Distopia
Peace is War
Liberty is Slavery
1984, i guess?

[robertwang]

In a real dystopia, you think you're in a utopia.

[awabqureshi]

One man's utopia, is another man's dystopia.

[GIRGHGH]

So I guess then it's best to strive for midtopia?

[microscopetimbs]

Dystopia is when Internet Explorer becomes the only available browser.

[SethWolf]

Actually, 1984 has a happy ending, though most people skim over it. The Appendix (the bit describing INGSOC in-universe) at the end of the book that details the world is written in Standard English, and talks about INGSOC in past-tense, as if scientists from after the fact are speaking about it. This means that the superpowers eventually fell, and individuality won over. Don't believe me? Read the appendix, 1984 is an excellent book.

[mahlawn]

Birds born in a cage believe flying is a sickness

[merrittanimation]

I can't believe you didn't mention that Utopia means "no place" in Greek, because I feel that would've added to the theme.

[Dazork]

Video synopsis: Think of the perfect utopian world. Now think of what it would take to create and uphold it. Is it still a utopia? No.

They are the same, and no one can change that.

[TechnoVisionTV]

The scariest part about dystopia is that you never realize you are in one until it’s too late to stop it

[nigoulenoblehiboux]

That interesting how the first utopia imagined look more like a dystopia now.

[carlosluque]

The ending of 1984 is ambiguous if you take into account the appendix on Newspeak, that is put at the end of the book. It talks about Newspeak in the past tense and in proper English which opens up the interpretation that the ''proles'', as they're called in the book, actually did manage to revolt against Big Brother.

[CaptainDM]

one man's utopia might be a other man's dystopia

[erikfeher]

A Utopia is not possible for us humans, because it would require us to all have the same wants, beliefs, ideas, etc. We would need a hive mind, or otherwise a total clone of just one, with a center, kind of like ants.

[havilinhargraves]

I taped up posters around my high school saying “big brothers always watching, feel safe yet (my high schools name)” and was questioned for an hour by our resource officer and compared to Charles Manson and Hitler in one breath. I did this because they were putting in cameras infront of the bathrooms, and I wasn’t for that so I tried to peacefully protest and was taken down and put up for expulsion.

[elidennison]

"And the slaves wear chains of gold."

[harrisonshone]

I would go even further. There is no difference between a utopia and a dystopia.

1. In order to have a utopia, you need a pure society.
2. In order to have a pure society, a way of enforcing that purity is required.
3. In order for society to maintain purity by force, a totalitarian state is established.
4. In order to establish a totalitarian state, all forms of opposition must be eradicated.
5. In order for opposition to be eradicated, the people must be oppressed.
6. In order for people to be content, they can't be oppressed.

How can a society be perfect if it's people will inevitably end up discontent and incapable of doing anything about it?

[kylebiskupski]

I paused this video when he said spoiler alert like a year ago, and just now after finally getting and finished reading 1984 did I finish this video

[dfa]

One mans Utopia is inherently another man's Dystopia.

[ArgaJacint]

I have a communist classmate who believes that 1984 actually describes a perfect society. Yea, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.