With fair regularity I notice something that, if I shift my perspective just a tiny bit outside the one I've been encouraged to use, reminds me that we kind-of live in a horrible 80s sci-fi dystopia, just with a sleeker aesthetic and way fewer(!) rebels/"hackers" living the free life and fighting The Man.
This time I didn't even need to shift my perspective.
Same here... I stay close enough to those hit hard by dystopia to see it regularly, though. It doesn't leave me. A young person recently even asked if I read 1984. I told him about things that have come to pass since I did. I said the weirdest things to me are little things that should make it obvious: tons of propaganda in media plus TV's and watches that track us constantly. People still embrace them willingly. (sighs)
Marshal McLuhan predicted this, that the ultimate television show would be one where people spill their guts to the public and the audience decides their fate.
People crowdfunding their healthcare is one of the most depressing, if not the most depressing, aspect of "healthcare" in America. It's dystopian that the richest country can't even take care of its citizens and cares more about its military.
