 Hello, I'm sitting on the floor again because my stomach actually really hurts but that's not important. You saw the title of this video. This is about dystopias. Now these have obviously been around for a really long time but nowadays most people tend to associate them or at least most people in the circles I run in tend to associate them with the terrible young adult dystopia boom that we saw like 10 or 12 years ago when the Hunger Games got big and because of that many people were kind of soured on the concept of dystopias and so I just don't see them as often nowadays which is kind of a shame and I think part of the reason for that was that so many of those terrible young adult ones were just authoritarianism is bad which I mean you're not wrong but you're not it's too vague and you're not really saying anything you know dystopias are about the fears and anxieties of the author slash the audience slash society at the time that they're writing you know it takes specific things and then blows them up into much bigger deals and says like hey this is a problem and it's just trying to get more people to agree with that like in the Hunger Games for instance since that's a very well known one that was talking about like class divisions and how reality TV is kind of fucked up and how propaganda works and it's just specifically bringing up problems with American society or at least problems as the author saw them and I don't know I was just thinking about that a while ago and also because of some stuff my schedule for putting these videos out has been moved around so I figured you know let's just put out a short one on like ideas for dystopian settings that people can use and obviously feel free to use all these and just comment down below what you think about some of these and how you would change it maybe or other ideas for settings that you have so the first problem that I thought of that we could do something with was environmental degradation and the first setting would be one where it's decades or centuries in the future where climate change has just completely fucked the planet and like obviously human civilization is still around but there's large swaths of the planet which is just uninhabitable to us and the land isn't air arable and there's not many animals or plants there anymore and just so everything went into the toilet and so governments had to crack down and now poor people are extremely restricted in what sort of technologies they can use and how much they can pollute because they have to try and get this under control but then rich people are still doing whatever the hell they want you know it's kind of like in the real world how no matter how much we try and change things there's still people running around in private jets all the time which pollutes away way more than your average person is going to over their lifetime another one would be that the chemicals being put into the environments you know like microplastics and other stuff like that are building up in human bodies so much that most of us don't live past the age of 30 and these things are pretty much unavoidable especially microplastics so it's really bad and in order to continue civilization and continue the human race people are just forced to breed you know like before uh by the time you're like in your teens early 20s they're going to start going over to you like hey make children right now and obviously that would be terrible for a variety of reasons another problem that we can play around with that I haven't seen many people do to be honest is a propaganda and the way that works like one simple setting or maybe not even a setting but just like a thing you can show would be like people denying something literally while they're doing it like it could be the president or some other politician uh denying that he stole money and used it to buy a giant ass mansion and he could be filming himself literally in front of his giant ass mansion while he's doing it and some people would defend him on that for whatever reason and that just that'd be kind of neat because we are seeing stuff like that nowadays another one would be that there is so much propaganda being pumped out at all times of all types from all different directions that even the people making it no longer remember what reality is like because keep in mind that while yes governments like the american government and the russian government gets brought up a lot in this discussion because they're one of the most prominent ones doing it but they're not the only ones uh and other governments and other organizations do it but anyways uh they will bring up propaganda but they don't just support one side with it usually uh their idea is to sow division among their enemies basically so they will sometimes support like right wing things and left wing things and just use that to stir the pot and make people angry and if you do that enough maybe even the people making it would just forget what's real anymore and because of this uh because propaganda also escalates more and more and more there could just be constant violence between people because well quite frankly uh propaganda tends to escalate more and more and more and that's why we're getting to the point where like in the united states we have people just openly calling for the end of democracy because it won't get them what they want so shit like that could get uh worse and worse as time goes on if it gets more out of control a world where people have just rejected all medicine altogether like this could start with vaccines and they just outright make them illegal it it's not even like i don't want them don't give it to me it would just become hey make it illegal because that's the direction we're starting to see with some people uh i i really you know anti-vaxxers used to just be dipshits you know it wasn't something that you could apply to any particular political group you know it wasn't like a left wing thing or a right wing thing it was just dipshits from all over the place and most of us agreed they were stupid but now it's almost exclusively a right wing thing so i i don't know make of that what you will but you know they're all dipshits and if you're an anti-vaxxer uh hi you're fucking stupid but from that point like if you're dumb enough to think that this thing will harm you even though everyone gets it and it doesn't harm them in any way uh or if you're even stupider and you genuinely think that it's like a plot to track you or control your brain or something then it would be easy to apply that logic to other stuff as well like antibiotics and other types of medication and so that could easily become illegal too and you'd have people that were trying to tell them hey this is good but they just wouldn't be able to convince them and it would be just be awful to live in this society because we all live in a society and this would also could overlap or be a metaphor for things like abortion and hormone replacement therapy which a lot of people are trying to restrict access to more and more and more even though they are often medically necessary procedures the justice system you know imagine a justice system where every crime no matter how horrible it is is punished with a fine you know because the the worst the crime would be obviously you'd have to pay more but if you have enough money you can just do whatever the fuck you want like you could murder three people and if you had enough money for the fine you'd get away with it with no punishment but at the same time if you couldn't afford the fine you would just be executed on the spot so the justice system would uh be a lot smaller I guess than it is now because it wouldn't have prisons or anything and I imagine trials would be a bit speedier for lack of a better term and just yeah like you could do some interesting stuff with that a world of underpopulation you know people used to bring up overpopulation as a problem a lot but nowadays I'm seeing more and more concern uh from certain groups of people at least about underpopulation because there's a lot of countries like in East Asia and Japan South Korea Singapore and especially in Europe as well uh birth rates are falling and people are specifically high up people in government and business are realizing hey if our population crashes we're gonna have a smaller tax base we're not gonna have as many wage slaves to work for us we need to find a way to get people making kids and a lot of things they're doing don't seem to be working like they're trying to offer child tax credits and stuff it's just not doing anything because at the end of the day in modern society people realize that having kids is a lot of work for basically zero reward and so a lot of people are not having kids at all and other people are just having one or two and they used to have 12 and obviously this has to do with like housing shortages and low wages for jobs and stuff like that but anyways whatever the reasons behind it eventually this problem gets so bad and that the people in charge just get desperate and they're like you know what we're forcing everybody to make babies in order to make society go along so like every year they just hold a lottery and the people who win or win are just forced to have a kid that year or you know something along those lines that would be really really interesting to me at least I'd be interested in seeing what other people could do with that or on the flip side you could have it so that the population just crashed so much that civilization eventually collapsed and now just like the economy is failing roads and houses and factories and everything are either laying abandoned or just falling into disrepair because there's not enough people there to you know maintain it all so that could be kind of interesting too it would be like the most original post-apocalyptic setting I've ever seen religious extremism this is basically always been a problem but it it has peaks and valleys you know and there's obviously different religions but when it comes to extremism they're all pretty similar but imagine a world where religious extremism got so bad that sex is just 100 outlawed you know like all reproduction is done artificially that could well that would be no fun would it like it's not just premarital sex that they're banning or like same-sex relations or anything like that just all together it's it's not allowed that I don't know like it just seems like a logical progression of how a lot of religions treat sexual desires at least to me it seems that way uh or another way to handle it would be like the government as we know it is gone and all decisions are made by god or made by god I think you could put in quotes because people would just realize okay we need to come to a decision let's pray and then they think about it for a minute and just look for a sign or something like that and whatever they interpret as the sign that's what they're gonna do like that's not far off from how uh some people have run societies over the years or imagine technology imagine a world where uh software and artificial intelligence just becomes so complex and so above us that no one understands it like for example think about the youtube algorithm like a lot of people complain about it all the time but the thing is no one actually understands it at all and the reason for that being that when the people at youtube made it they made bots which were supposed to uh maximize the amount of time people spend on youtube and then those bots also made bots and those bots also made bots and those bots also made bots and they're the ones that are changing everything and so that's also why they're so reluctant to change it because they don't understand it they don't understand how it works and they're afraid if they change it might have unintended consequences so you can imagine how if this applied to other things it would be a pretty big deal and it would be uh extremely difficult to work out the problems with it nationalism imagine if nationalism gets even worse and countries just become smaller and smaller and smaller to the point where they're like the size of a neighborhood even and people just start identifying with that specific neighborhood and thinking yes we are different than the people next door and not only that but we're better than the people next door and as soon as you stop fitting in in this environment because your ideals change or maybe something else then you're just either leave or you're forced out and so people would just be constantly moving all over the place to the point where they don't even really remember where they started or how they got here and people would define themselves no longer what they by what they are but what they're not or imagine clout chasing like clout chasing is already a disease all over the internet but imagine there's a future where jobs are just so scarce that the only real careers that a lot of people have uh available to them would be like being famous on the internet or something and so in order to get that fame in order to like leave their crappy life that they're stuck in they're just constantly doing stupid shit to try and get attention and try and get people to notice them which this is basically all of tiktok now that i'm thinking about it but i'm sure many of you are already thinking over times where like yeah i remember this stupid person that's stupid person like just imagine if that was everybody all the time and they're all constantly trying to one up one another that would be fucking horrible and finally last on the list uh possibly the worst dystopia i can think of uh just imagine a world where france exists like that that would just that would be terrible it's a good thing france isn't a real place anyways uh thanks for watching this far if you have your own ideas put them down below i want to get a discussion going and if it's if you don't have any of your own ideas then just i'm glad i entertained you for a few minutes and if you weren't entertained why 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