Dystopia isn't exciting, conflict-ridden rapid decline with many opportunities to be a hero. It's exhausted hopeless mediocrity all around.
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Exactly. Setting a work in what is arguably a dystopia does not make it dystopian. I might suggest the phrase "dark adventure."
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I've been there. There's a lineup at the border too.
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Maybe utopia looks the same way, as relative differences become harder to see and we all get okay at things
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Utopia isn't serene, conflict-free steady progress with no need to be a hero. It's smug, boring mediocrity all around.
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