Are we Citizens of Dystopia already?

[Ninurta]

I never was assigned 1984 while I was in school. I did choose to read it and many other dystopian novels on my own after my dad suggested I read them. I’m glad he did. I remember having long discussions on how life would be. I think I wouldn’t be nearly as prepared if I had ignored his advice.

 It’s easy where I live to get lulled into a sense of comfort. Everything seems like normal life in the smaller towns I go to.

I only notice how bad things are getting when I go to bigger cities, turn on the tv or scroll most social media. Then I see the signs of dystopia. 

I too think it’s the early stages and I do hope there is still a chance for people to wake up. I’ve noticed that more and more are responding with an opposing view on propaganda posts that the local new stations have been putting out. It used to only be one or two and they would be ridiculed but that doesn’t seem to be happening as much.

I've also noticed it on social media. the way everyone is getting entrenched into an "us" vs "them" mentality, and parroting the Party Lines - thinking whatever they are told to think, and nothing else.


Just yesterday, a FB friend, who was one of my former bosses, went off on a rant about how unmasked people are being "selfish" and "murdering" the masked, vaccinated folks with the covid. It boggles the mind. She used to be relatively sane...  then was told to adjust her thinking by The Party, and amazingly DID.

Nietzsche had a philosophy of "the higher man and the herd". We are watching it play out in real time, with our very own eyes.




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