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dystopia /dys·to·pia/ (-to´pe-ah) malposition; displacement.
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Orwell, Huxley, and other dystopians understood that technology wedded to unaccountable power amplifies human weaknesses -- resulting in terror, mass bloodshed, and despotism. Conspiracy folklore does the same thing for the same reason, except that most of these dystopians actually believe in the worlds they've invented. In particular, he approves of the view held in common by the dystopians of unadulterated technological advance as the immediate problem and human nature as the underlying problem. |
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