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Dystopia as Clickbait:
Science Fiction, Doomscrolling, and Reviving the Idea of the Future
By Christopher Brown
Flash forward to 2020, and the scenes on the news look more dystopian than the darkest new Hollywood futures streaming to our living rooms. The fear factor gets dialed up every day, fueled by genuine concerns about everything from contagion to climate crisis to the coming political reckoning.
I just started another Hulu series - Dimension 404. Oy - it's Twilight Zone meets Digital Nightmares. I swear, EVERYTHING is about dystopian futures. We have no collective hope left to imagine a better world, and this is sad!
@BlueStateBabe
Yes...
Dystopian futures are some how addictive.
Yet there is a lot of new fiction trying to counter this trend, by telling stories of a possible future, perhaps not utopian, but at least full of humanity and interdependence.
Video by Molly Crabapple, Opal Tometi, Avi Lewis
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/01/naomi-klein-message-from-future-covid/