It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.
Hugh HoweyBefore Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.
Jeffrey RosenTags: liberty dystopia privacy constitution surveillance surveillance-society september-11-attacks american-society constitutional-rights fourth-amendment biometrics
We urgently need to do - and I mean actually do - something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don't think we will.
I think we're fucked.
Tags: science activism environment dystopia
Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.
Leigh M. LaneTags: reading dystopia escapism
All the enormous machines that keep full Citizens comfortable far above us in their glittering towers, all the infrastructure of power, of fuel, of commerce and industry—all of it happens below. Made possible with our hands. With our bodies.
With our lives.
I would have done anything to escape.
I got my chance. I made it out—but the price was loneliness.
Tags: tyranny dystopia exploitation
Nothing exists except through human consciousness
George OrwellTags: consciousness human fiction dystopia 1984 george-orwell
Mum took me to the park a couple of times last week so that I could run. That was a waste of time though, it takes hours to get there and when you finally do, well, there's no room to do anything really, what with all the tents pitched everywhere. Mum says there used to be grass, but I don't see where.
Martin PondTags: dystopia run grass park near-future tent
His truths may hurt me, but at least I know that they're truths. My mom and Cameron felt the need to make me feel better. He has no such obligation.
M.K. SutherlandTags: truth dystopia robin-bailey
And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions of the system, and had used it for bringing people to things, instead of for bringing things to people. Those funny old days, when men went for change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!
E.M. ForsterTags: dystopia dependance
I want to laugh one of those strange, high-pitched, delusional laughs that signals the end of a person's sanity. Because this world, I think, has a terrible, terrible sense of humor. It always seems to be laughing at me. At my expense. Making my life infinitely more complicated all the time. Running all of my best-laid plans by making every choice so difficult. Making everything so confusing.
Tahereh MafiTags: romance dystopia adam juliette warner arron
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