It’s not a sci-fi dystopia, but I just watched Zootopia again and the plot is harsher in hindsight. The villain is trying to gain power by turning everyone against a minority population and making them fear that minority. To think this came out before Trump’s first presidency.

The Running Man novel is set in 2025 and the second movie adaptation just came out. Things aren’t as bad as they are portrayed there. Reality shows aren’t killing people yet. But people are going on exploitative reality shows because they feel desperate for money.

I don’t know, I’m not sure anyone has made a movie about a boring-ass dystopia where the rich plunder everything and the rest of us are too propagandized to care no matter how desperate things get. I’m going for a special mix of Harrison Bergeron, The Day After Tomorrow and The Road ultimately. Oh and Snowcrash , but until we get there I’m sure “The Frog Boil” will be a hit when it does come out.

I would say we’re getting dangerously close to the videogame “Freedom Fighters”. Just replace Soviet Union with MAGA and New York with US and we’re already there.

wiki synopsis:

The game is set in an alternate history in which the Soviet Union has invaded and occupied New York City. The player takes the role of Christopher Stone, a plumber turned resistance movement leader, fighting against the invaders in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and on Governors Island.

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

Visionary Aldous Huxley

I dunno but I feel like if we get another year of trump, we will be doing “the running man” competition with immigrants

I’ve always thought it would be like Tank Girl but the big company is basically a merger of Amazon and Nestle.

Right now: Deus Ex, specifically the Adam Jensen games

in the Near future, best case we get Cyberpunk 2077, worst case we get Horizon Zero dawn’s Faro Plague

Elysium - rich people living in space or enclaves; the rest of us in slums with robots and AIs controlling us.

Children of men.

Plastics that have accumulated in our bodies are going to have massive impacts on our bodys regular functions. Covid ran rampant causing mental decline and increased weaknesses to milder diseases, leading to further degradation of our body’s regular function. Authoritarianism is deep set into our politics Climate change is forcing more and more people into refugee status. The rich and wealthy continue to violate our planet for their own gain, building themselves bunkers and personal armies to defend themselves from the consequences of their actions.

Three way tie in my book:

That episode of Black Mirror where everyone had to ride stationary bikes and were forced to watch unskippable ads if they didn’t have credits, except everything you have to watch is AI slop instead of your crush doing porn.

Or the Handmaid’s Tale, but instead of some mysterious infertility crisis, fertile women are rare because they die in pregnancy and childbirth due to anti-science rhetoric flat out killing them. (Look up “free birthing”, etc.) At some point it gets bad enough that replacing your wife is more like getting a new pet.

Maybe the hot version of The Road. We just have wars over water and resources until the plantet’s too fucked for human life, and the survivors are left roaming around making jerky out of each other until the end.

Could be all three at once. Yay!

Not exactly sci fi, but the TV adaptation of Handmaid’s Tale bears some striking parallels to the current renaissance that extreme right ideologies are currently enjoying. Off the top of my head…

• It shows how quickly and easily street-level enforcement of an authoritarian system can be implemented, and that there is no shortage of people willing to take on that role.

• It shows that the architects of an oppressive system aren’t necessarily “true believers” in such a system, nor are they held to the standards demanded of the average citizen.

• It shows how extremist ideologies bleed beyond the borders of one country and begin to infect others.

You can see examples of all three of these in what’s happening now.

Back to the Future 2’s bad timeline.

There’s that episode of The Orville where social media is the law.

https://orville.fandom.com/wiki/Majority_Rule

Idiocracy 💯