I had aimed to write a post for today, along the lines of posting links to various blogs answering the question "What Is A Dystopia?" in order to get answers from wiser and more experienced people than I.
And then I overheard tonight's news on the BBC.
- The UK military upbraided for its use of torture on Iraqi detainees, including Baha Mousa;
- An article on the forthcoming 9/11 anniversary, showing how New York keeps the peace in the aftermath ... with armed police spot checks, bag checks, undercover detectives following suspects who refuse a spot check, surveillance and a program of employing snitches and informants;
- a report on how a very brown, Muslim-looking reporter got killed by NATO forces "by mistake;"
- and a report on one man's long quest to bring the killer of Aleksandr Litvinenko (the dissident poisonied in London with radioactive polonium in his tea) to justice.
- Oh, and now an article on how the police are training to be more brutal when the country riots again.
We'll not see it a century hence; but the historians of the future will pick up the newspapers of our day and chortle at our inability to see the answer to the question "What Is Dystopia?" even when it was in plain sight.
A Dystopia is, in fact, a Utopia ... but only for some. Specifically, not for you.
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