But if 2020 and 2021 have proved anything, it’s how quickly the impossible can become the familiar, and the familiar can become the norm. With the overwhelming slew of unprecedented events crammed into the last couple of years, we’ve been primed to accept the next disaster as just another...
That republic only lasted 3 years until, once again, it was overturned by a Bonaparte (this time Louis-Napoleon, who had escaped from prison and got elected to the republic’s Assembly) in a sequence of events that led Karl Marx to comment:“all great world-historic facts and personages ...
Real-life historical events such as war, revolution, the rise of repressive governments or new technologies inspired Dystopian authors to write about future worlds of oppression, terror, suffering, and loss of individual freedoms, or battles between man and machine. The emergence of Communism and ...
The events in 1984 are fictitious, but they can also happen in real life. In the article, “George Orwell and the N.C.A.A.,” the author, Gary Alan Fine, explains that the National Collegiate Athletic Association made a decision to erase all the football victories from the Pennsylvania ...
“Let me tell you a story,” Russell Crowe’s Noah says to his family in a moment of great crisis and emotion. “The first story my father told me, and the first story I told each of you.” What he recounts are the events of Genesis 1, the creation of the world; and Aronofsky...
When Dare notices Aya (a Dreg for all intents and purposes) and she rebuffs his advances, his brutal and punishing nature insists that she pay. So he puts to work a chain of events that eventually leave Aya no other choice but to participate in the Run where Dare has every intention ...
Around Thorne, Lis could touch him and just be in the moment. She never got pulled into her brain or saw future events she would prefer not to see. Like she did when she touched other lowborns and Caelestias. So the sexual tension between Lis and Thorne was done fabulously. It wasa ...
I’m way too self-conscious to ever be able to do anything like that in real life, but if I could be someone else, that’s what I’d choose. To perform to tens of thousands of adoring fans for a couple of hours must be such an incredible rush! This is going to sound strange, ...
False Flag Events, False Flag Operations, False Flag/Hoax, False Flags, False Narratives, Fascism, Fascist, Federal Government, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Private Corporation, Fighting the Establishment, Final Megiddo Battle, Forced Vaccination, Fraudulent, Fraudulent Systems, Freedom, Freedom of ...
skip to main content forget dystopian fiction. sochi is pure dystopian reality with events like the sochi winter games turning allegories into real life, why even bother with the fiction? image: lionel bonaventure, ap save save if you're exhausted by the glut of dystopian literature that has ...