Entry #2 Dystopia - Impossible or too possible?

 Hello Everybody!

    Today, my entry is about the question in this title. Is dystopia impossible or is it too possible?

    Many people have read dystopian novels, maybe they liked them, or maybe they hated them. But lots of those people do not even know that they are reading dystopias. So what are they? Dystopia is defined as "a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, after something terrible has happened" (Cambridge Dictionary). Dystopian novels are fictional stories in a dystopian setting.

Think, The Hunger Games, Divergent, Uglies, The Selection, The Maze Runner, etc. If you are interested, here are some more choices, Dystopian Novels. 

    Even knowing what they are, so many people see it strictly as it's written; fiction. But have you ever stopped to think about what would happen if they weren't? 

What if the government decided to split us into five sectors, five factions, based on our most prominent qualities? What if we lost a huge war, and came under the rule of a monarch? Or what if we lost so much in a war that those in charge decide to hold an annual mini-war? 

In my opinion, these scenarios are not impossible in today's world.

 

  While the main point of these novels may be to entertain us, they also warn us about what type of things that could happen to us if we are not careful. Think about how are world is right now. Countries at war, rights being stolen, riots, injustice. That's how most of these stories start. 

Lots of people choose to believe that this could never happen to us, that we are too good or too real for it to happen. But I'd like to argue that these stories are possibilities. If we went to far, or our government becomes too corrupt, we could end up in a scary and unfair society just like the ones we read about. 

Well, it's something to think about, anyhow.

Signing off, 

Zila