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Utopia makes for very boring television. Dystopian megacorporations make the future interesting to watch. There's a reason why there's a Chinese curse: "May yo
by kiba 4y ago
Utopia makes for very boring television. Dystopian megacorporations make the future interesting to watch.
There's a reason why there's a Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting time."
- Joeboy 4y ago> Utopia makes for very boring television. The original Channel 4 version was brilliant (although the subject matter didn't age well, or maybe aged a bit too well). Didn't see the US remake but heard it was a dud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnN3WMwDsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnN3WMwDsk
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> There's a reason why there's a Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting time." This cannot be true, because there is no such curse.
- Anthony-G 4y agoAnother myth busted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...
- mlindner 4y agoDystopia is just as lacking in creativity as Utopia. You can have very interesting things happening even when overall society is getting better. For example: A TV series showing civilization winning against some form of evil is plenty interesting and has been done many times, despite it not being dystopian. Right now it's become "popular" to have things go badly or to have a set standard start of things going badly. This is a mental disease of movie writers in the modern era.
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoUtopia doesn't mean that there are no more challenges, it just means they are different. You can have space travel in a utopia - same with time travel. There are lots of ways to get into dangerous situations. The drama is just centered around different things than it is with dystopias.