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Tag: Dystopia

Kim Jong Un, This One’s for You

By Cherilyn Parsons —

“The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson is a rich, careening, dystopian tale that gives us a visceral hit of life inside North Korea.

Posted on Feb 3, 2012 READ MORE | 31 COMMENTS

Flickr / Ludovic Bertron (CC-BY)

2011: A Brave New Dystopia

By Chris Hedges —

The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” It turns out they were both right.

Posted on Dec 27, 2010 READ MORE | 354 COMMENTS

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‘Scanning’ the Darkness of Our War on Drugs

By Steven Kotler —

In this summer’s most talked-about movie, “A Scanner Darkly,” Keanu Reeves stars as an undercover narcotics agent losing his grip on reality in an America that has lost the war on drugs. True, the film is a warning call, but might it also inadvertently channel us toward the very dystopia it is warning against?
This article ran in May, but we’re trotting it out again because the movie just hit theaters this week.