A Dystopia

A dystopia is a place that is undesirable and frightening to live in. The word dystopia literally translates to “bad place”. In a dystopia, people have a lack of personal freedoms. They are oppressed by their governments and are discriminated against based on sex, age or IQ. There are places in the world that can be considered more dystopian than others but no place can ever be considered truly dystopian; or utopian for that matter. Although our world is neither completely a dystopia nor completely a utopia, it does contain aspects that would be considered dystopian in nature such as the monitoring of citizens, war, and the division of citizens by class or ability which facilitate the institution of a dystopia.

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War-inducing violence is always key in prompting global states of terror. In our modern world this violence has recently manifested itself as incidents of police brutality towards African-Americans. The list of people who have been murdered at the hands of police is lengthy. Although, the reason that this has caused an uproar is because most, if not all, of those people murdered were innocent unarmed, African-American men, women, and even children. One such example is that of Alton Sterling who was shot and killed in Baton Rouge for selling CD’s outside a convenience store. The attack was completely unwarranted as he had already been restrained by two officers who had him pinned to the ground. In retaliation, there have been several attacks on cops such as the Dallas sniper attacks and, in the past week, the murder of two cops in Baton Rouge. At this point, with the number of casualties, these incidents can be considered guerrilla urban warfare which could be the spark to an inevitable civil war. Globablly, the world is fighting a much bigger war; the war against ISIS. With the increase of attacks, almost weekly in July, people have become paralyzed with fear. This has caused a decline in air travel costing the travel industry an estimated eight billion dollars since 2015 according to data collection site YouGov.com. People have delayed or cancelled trips due to the increased terror threats. This fear is what drives the formation of dystopian society. Yet, it can be debated that the war against ISIS was caused by the war in the Middle East which created the eastern-world-hating terrorist group. The war in the Middle East is ongoing but the opponent has changed on more than one occasion with the affirmation that there had never been any other enemies except the current one , much like in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. The wars against Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel and more have drained the