Dystopia Persuasive Essay

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We all have the same non-threatening addiction, we watch, read, live, and breathe them. What are they? Utopias and dystopias. Everyday we encounter examples of utopias and dystopias, from books to movies, but neither exists in reality because not everyone can be satisfied with the same environment, proving that fiction does not translate to reality, and we need to find a new goal.

Utopias and dystopias have an archetype that is known worldwide, yet they are useless to try to translate to real life. A utopia is seens as fetching, immaculate, and essentially perfect, whereas a dystopia is the complete opposite. A dystopia is imperfect, unkempt, and abominable. There is nothing “bad” in a utopia, and nothing “good” in a dystopia. Heaven …show more content…

But, if humans finally acknowledge this and step away from these ideas, what is there to focus on? My solution is to become a new society of protopia. The definition of a protopia is that it isn’t perfect, but each day is better than the last. This is a realistic goal unlike the others. A blogger from The Technium says, “Today we’ve become so aware of the downsides of innovations, and so disappointed with the promises of past utopias, that we now find it hard to believe even in protopia — that tomorrow will be better than today. We find it very difficult to imagine any kind of future we would want to live in. Name a single science fiction future that is both plausible and desirable?” This blogger is right, a protopia is not as nearly as thrilling or appealing as a utopia or dystopia, but it is real unlike the others. Utopias are perfect and nothing can ever be perfect, dystopias are notoriously undesirable even by the worst human being. They are strictly fictional which is why they frequently show up in our entertainment. They can not be brought to reality because, as it was said on The sci Phi Show, “Humans are a messy selfish lot and something like Marx’s vision of a perfect society with everybody labouring, ‘To each according to their need, From each according to the ability’, will fail when it is tried on a large scale.” In other words, everyone

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