It's rare to see introspective questions around here. The fear is not all fictional, but the fictional part, the fear of the totalitarian Other, is definitely h

It's rare to see introspective questions around here. The fear is not all fictional, but the fictional part, the fear of the totalitarian Other, is definitely helpful in justifying the establishment status quo and maintaining consensus. The excesses in the status quo are instead projected onto the Other, disavowed. The other part of the fear is just what is called ideology, the lens through which the world is understood. In this case the western ideology is universalism, the philosophy that certain ideas are to be applied universally and infinitely. The works you list here are really examples of how universalism (utopianism, technologism, capitalism, totalitarianism) as a historical process necessarily develops into its own failure, in a Hegelian sense. I don't see univeralism as predominant as particularism in eastern fiction or even philosophy. The "eastern" particularism means that no idea is to be blindly applied to the end, no law is absolute, and no principle is sacred if it doesn't "work" in practice. The Hegelian process shall be halted if it is going to evolve into dystopia. This is why there is no such fear in eastern fiction.