I’ve heard a lot of Gen Z people confuse dystopian and utopian. Usually I don’t care about “correct” language at all, I’d even argue languages that change are alive and changes are often invisible to those with rigid or discriminatory thinking. In this case the confusion seems almost deliberate or directional as in having an origin in some media where it is confused heavily though.
I never would “correct” a person IRL about this, but I am really confused how it is possible that several people can make the exact same error. Are the assigned meanings to those words changing?
I mean “Utopian” literally means “no-place” right? But we’ve come to associate the “no-place” as where values can be imagined. The inherent contradiction though usually means that when further analyzed under realistic presures and concerns the “ideal-place” is actually seen as fraudulent, and thus dystopian, just through another lense.