Dystopias and Utopias

Descendants (at least 17 branches originate here)

• Dystopias and Utopias 🔊

  1984Brave New WorldIslandGlasperlenspielHandmaid's Tale

  • is_parent George Orwell (1903-1950)

    George Orwell / Eric Arthur Blair born in British India, grew up in England, from 1922–1927 served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (Myanmar),

    • is_parent 1984 (1948) 🔒

      Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a totalitarian state where the Party controls reality itself through surveillance, propaganda, and engineered language. Oceania, E

      • is_parent Ingression of the day: Newspeak 🔒 ·

        новояз ("novy jazyk" - "new tongue") refers to the systematic substitution of euphemisms by Russian state media and officials to shape public perception, obscur
  • is_parent Margaret Atwood (1939)

    Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and critic whose work blends fiction, feminism, ecology, and political satire. She prefers the term “speculative

    • is_parent Handmaid's Tale (1985) 🔒

      The story when εὐαγγέλιον got seriously wrong, again.

      • is_parent did anyone expect ... 🔒 ·

        the Spanish Inquisition ???
    • is_parent did anyone expect ... 🔒 ·

      the Spanish Inquisition ???
    • is_parent Gilead 🔒 ·

      Gilead is a totalitarian theonomocracy built on fear, infertility, rigid control and necrotic inversion of Eros / Libido. After environmental collapse and decli
  • is_parent Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

    one of the most important anglosaxxon intellectuals of 1st half of 20th century first schooling by his own mother Julia (departure letter: "Judge not too much

    • is_parent Brave New World (1932) 🔒 ·

      BNW: biologically and psychologically engineered society built on stability, consumption & "happiness". Humans are mass-produced and conditioned from infancy.
    • is_parent Island (1962) 🔒 ·

      Island Pala is a psycho-spiritual utopia blending Buddhist mindfulness, Western science & ecological balance. Education as core institution: cultivating awaren
  • is_parent The Game with Glass Beads (1948) ·

    nihil adeo necesse est ante hominum oculos proponere ut certas quasdam res, quas esse neque demonstrari neque probari potest, quae contra eo ipso, quod pii dili
  • is_parent H.G.Wells (1866 - 1846) 🔒

    asides Shelley, Verne and Gernsback considered to be one of 19th parents of "science-fiction" genre a “social scientist in fiction”: stories as thought experim

    • is_parent Five Principles of Liberty 🔒 ·

      Listed in Wells' Utopia "Men like Gods" (1923) as follows: privacy free movement unlimited knowledge truthfulness free discussion
  • is_parent Huxley's quote on Illusion and Reality 🔒 ·

    ... The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously, because it is as real as it goes, and in those aspects of reality which we are
  • is_parent Мы (1921) 🔒 ·

    Anyone willing to refer at the Congress about the "mother of dystopias", the novel "We" by a Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin ?