JP's Dystopic Journal: Ep 1

If you had a time machine and went back to the late 20thCentury, then wrote a book giving an accurate depiction of life in America or Europe today, it would be classified as a work of dystopic fiction. The book would be compared with 1984, Atlas Shrugged, or any number of novels depicting a dystopian future. Most of the people that read it would hope that our society and culture would develop along a better, saner path. It's to the point where one would swear the people today see Orwell's 1984, not as a warning to humanity, but as in instruction book. We now live in the type of world that authors like Orwell, Rand, and Huxley tried to warn us about.