GeorgeGlass

Definitely, contemporary dystopian fiction doesn't have any scare value: “It's going to be society exactly as messed up as it is today — but on a train!” It almost sounds like a parody, but maybe they're trying to simplify what they think the root causes or possible solutions are… or just take random guesses at how it can always get even worse.

(Yesterday I was talking with someone about They Live! and how boring the first half of the movie is because it's indistinguishable from most major U.S. cities these days.)

The past decades have been even more bizarre than fiction. Imagine if George Orwell saw that people are happy to pay for their own tracking devices and even more eager to share all their most-intimate thoughts and details with all the world’s corporations and governments.