A dystopia is an imagined society where there is an immense amount of exploitation, violence, and distrust between social classes. A dystopia doesn’t always follow a cataclysmic or apocalyptic event which is what I previously thought before learning about different types of dystopian elements and aspects. After reading The Continue reading
When this podcast project was presented to us, I was a little skeptical because that means that I would be working in a group. Previously I stated that I mostly like group work when it is science related because it helps me understand the information better and I think that Continue reading
I think that people need to have hope for a better future or else nothing is going to change. Hope is not needed if the people are content in their situation, but most of the time the people in dystopian societies are silently displeased, if they are not expressing how Continue reading
I think religion could be part of the answer to defeating dystopia. Religion gives people hope that things will get better and the chance that God or gods will hear your prayers leaves light at the end of the tunnel. The light is the possibility for a brighter future Continue reading
Edward Snowden made claims about the state of privacy in the United States today and it was a very important interview at the start of COVID after lockdowns were in place. One of the claims that he made was that emergency powers are born out of crisis but have Continue reading
The Purge follows a family of four as they navigate through a 12-hour timespan where there is lawlessness. The family lives in an affluent gated community and have the highest selling form of home security for the purge. They end up housing a injured black man that causes problems for Continue reading
Democracy would be the least dystopian type of government in my opinion. When thinking of a dystopian society, I don’t really think about government at all. If I do recognize some sort of government in the books and films that I read or watch, it would be totalitarian. The justifiable Continue reading
I like group work mostly when its science related because it helps me understand the information better. Usually in those situations I get to pick the people I am working with, that plays a factor in our communication. When I work with people I am familiar with the communication is Continue reading
A dystopia is an imagined society where there is an immense amount of maltreatment following a cataclysmic event. The cataclysmic event doesn’t always have to be apocalyptic, but that is what is usually depicted in books and movies today. In the recent examples of fictional dystopias, the government doesn’t think Continue reading
