Why Is Dystopia Wrong

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

Thomas More

On utopia and dystopia

Utopia as we could read in the Oxford Dictionary is: “An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect”; but would that be even possible? Is it possible for humans to overcome our own selfishness and want nothing more than our part?

Let’s imagine a society where neither private property nor money exists, but slavery is common, where euthanasia is practiced, providing the individual a lethal narcotic, a society that organizes the day of its inhabitants

Dystopia describes a clearly undesirable imaginary world, which tends to sacrifice the freedom of its citizens to benefit other purposes, usually little altruistic.

The utopian literary tradition was practically replaced in the twentieth century by this skeptical trend, that we call dystopian. This change occurs mainly because the idea of "future" as a representation of a possible social improvement enters in crisis indefinitely . Friedrich Nietzsche, who depicted in his works his distrust of science as an absolute solution to all the problems of humanity, anticipated many dystopian arguments, criticizing the excessive mechanization of life as a result of scientific imperialism; humanity worships as if it were new religion.

Utopia or dystopia, both models come from the commitment and discontent of the author, who feels uncomfortable with the society he lives in. That is why they use prospective fiction to expose their commitment, criticism, and hope for change, sometimes taking their premises to the extreme, building a framework in which they locate their stories.

Swift: Gulliver and his