More like people long for it because they feel trapped and their lives being sucked from them. Dystopian apocalypse suddenly looks a whole lot like freedom when viewed from behind invisible bars.
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Not at all. Of course there are pelnty of exceptions, but generally, people write scifi that reflects the current view of the future. That modern times see a lot of dystopian scifi refekcts that scifi writers see a bleak future if keep on this path.
Good scifi relates to people. If you write something that is completely foreign to how peoole live now, you can't get a big audience. Dystopian scifi sells now, because most people see current times as dystopian or see the current path to the future as one that leads to a dystopia.
The other way around, when peopke feel like they are living in better times and they feel like the future is bright. Than you see more eutopian s ifi is written. The early 1900's for example saw a big boom in technology and quality of life for many people (who could read and afford to buy or write scifi). So there's more eutopian scifi in that era.
Than the wars came..
Yeah, just read stuff from Asimov. Definitely not dystopian.
Idk if Neuromancier or Judge Dreed or their echoes in media like Shadowrun imply freedom. They seem more like allegories for new kinds of prisons.
Yes, you have a protagonist or two who is one of the Specials. And maybe they survive while everyone else around them dies or otherwise falls victim to the horror.
Dystopia often has elements of rebellion or revolution. But it rarely looks like anyone is having much fun.
Praise Sheogorath for The Orville & For All Mankind.
No, it's so we can't imagine a better world. It's not a culture war, its a culture massacre.
Art is the real threat
The only sci-fi I can even think of that isn't dystopian is Star Trek. And, honestly, only older Trek. DS9 and most of what followed uses dystopian themes constsntly. 🤨
"recently"?
I'd probably put it more in the frame of we find it more believable rather than relatable. Captitalist realism and all that.
Insert Thanos quotable meme.
I bet a hard part of writing is dealing with the rush of air as your warnings whoosh over the heads of people who miss the point and fantasize over the power structure.
Well, yeah. But we just had a hopeful superhero failure-with-huge-public, so maybe that's ending.
Here’s a hard to swallow pill for the op: you are a fucking retard