You were taken from this world, and God now speaks to you. God asks you what punishment should be dealt to humanity for their sins. You can pick any fictional or theoretical dystopian scenario, as long as it is truly dystopian. After you’ve made your pick, your memory of the conversation is wiped, and you are brought back to earth to live the rest of your life however it might play out. The future of the world will be hard set in destiny to a future inspired by whatever you picked.
If you had to pick the dystopia to live in, what would it be?
I don’t think Brave New World is a dystopia, but that seems to be a minority opinion, so can I choose that?
As long as you end up as a beta. I don’t want to be an alpha. They have to work so much because they’re so much smarter than me. I am glad that I’m a beta. I am so much better than a gamma.
Same here, yes the government is totalitarian but its foremost goal is to provide people with everything they need for a blissful life.
On a moral level the crippling of a fetus to create a lower class human is horrifying. And I don’t think a society like this could ever exist because someone somewhere is going to mess it up for personal gain. But as a thought experiment? Yeah, definitely not a dystopia.
I mean, the point of the book was that a society where every physical human need was taken care of was still a dystopia if the spiritual needs for independence and free thinking were supressed
The need for independence and free thinking is still met, though. The enclaves are setup specifically for this purpose.