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Dystopia or Utopia - 2021 What's Yours Called ?

Dystopia :   a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.                 :  an antonym o f Utopia  a term coined by  Sir Thomas More   and figures as the title of                      one of his best known works , published in 1516, which created a blueprint for an                           ideal society with minimal crime, violence and poverty.    Wikipedia Dystopias are often characterised by   tyrannical  governments, environmental disaster, dehumanising  or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Dystopian societies appear in many  fictional works  and artistic representations, particularly in stories set in the future and some of the most famous examples are  Aldous Huxley 's  Brave New World  (1932),  George Orwell 's  Nineteen Eighty-Four  (1949), and  Ray Bradbury 's  Fahrenheit 451  (1953).  Many sub-genres of fiction use Dystopian Societies to draw attention to politics, economics, religion, psychology, science, ethi