I guess it's an experiment to see if cooperative problem-solving can make as interesting a story as competitive problem-solving. OH GOD I SOUND LIKE A MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER.
I get really sick of dystopias. I think their popularity is due to a false correlation: happiness is shallow, suffering is deep. Hell, the Something Is Rotten In Utopia trope also illustrates it pretty literally--happy utopia is only a facade concealing the misery that is the TRUE state of humanity, or something. Dammit, I am an optimist, and I think it's possible for deep, purposeful happiness to exist without making someone else miserable.
I guess a lot of it is a matter of taste, though--and my tastes run toward the happy. I love flawed, but not dystopic, fictional societies. I just wish there wasn't such a stigma on the really utopian ones.
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I get really sick of dystopias. I think their popularity is due to a false correlation: happiness is shallow, suffering is deep. Hell, the Something Is Rotten In Utopia trope also illustrates it pretty literally--happy utopia is only a facade concealing the misery that is the TRUE state of humanity, or something. Dammit, I am an optimist, and I think it's possible for deep, purposeful happiness to exist without making someone else miserable.
I guess a lot of it is a matter of taste, though--and my tastes run toward the happy. I love flawed, but not dystopic, fictional societies. I just wish there wasn't such a stigma on the really utopian ones.