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Penelope's an optimist
Near Lurker:
You know, I will say this for Twilight: it put a stop to a decade of every single YA book that wasn't some self-obsessed brat's diary being set in dystopia.
(Just in time for people to claim with a straight face that that element made Battle Royale appreciably different...)
jwhouk:
...And then Hunger Games comes along and ruins that.
techkid:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 25 May 2012, 16:30 ---A bit of historical perspective can lead to the awareness, which most people don't realize until it's over, that we are living in a Golden Age. The next conclusion is that it can only get worse.
--- End quote ---
True. To take a quote from Futurama: "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all".
To me, that pretty much says that by the time something's gone horribly wrong, people will only start realising that something needs to be fixed.
Is it cold in here?:
Is widespread dystopian fiction a sign that things are going well?
Wasn't the popular fiction of the 1930s, mired in a depression with a terrible war visibly looming, escapist and optimistic?
Carl-E:
I think it's more a sign of complacency in the general society.
In both cases, it's escapism.
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