One of the great conflicts of a Utopia is probably how to avoid boredom. You just don't have to fulfill your base needs and are protected against a lot of things. You may still want to travel around, meet people, see what they create, how they use their time.Įven in a Utopia, you still have some conflict, as minor as it may be. You can't expect that, because that's a terrible assumption for a setting to create a story in, just like it's a terrible setting, when everything is perfect, with everyones every need being met and everyone acting perfect, which you can't expect humans to do. What I meant with everything is on fire is that literally everything is on fire and currently dying.
It's a happy ending for now, but not the live happily ever after fairytale ending. For the moment, the problems are solved but the reader can already tell that new conflicts are possible, to bring misery to that place.
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Like finding that small piece of land in the mountain that is radiation free and kind of like a garden of Eden. The greater conflict of the story isn't really solved, instead dodged for a moment. The counterquestion to that would be "How can a Dystopia be used for a story if everything is on fire all the time?"Ĭlick to shrink.It just feels like that would be a set up to throw the next generation into another terrible situation. Unless you mean that in a everything has to always go perfect in every way and everyone has to act perfect. The setting does limit what kind of story you can tell, just like how the protagonist of a story influences how the story progresses. It's all slice of life, more or less but there are probably other things you could do with the setting. You could have "How I met your mother" play out in a Utopia, with most of the story remaining intact. There are more, but I guess you get my point. (this whole world is way to perfect AARRRRRGGGHGHGHH, que nervous breakdown because they can't find something to complain about) You could use a terribly annoying person as a protagonist who wants to find something to complain about and get conflict that way. You could even fail and end up only with the "consolation" price (the thing the protagonist really wanted was the friends they made on their way) You could try to be popular on the internet, the quest for fame and glory. You could have an annoying neighbor (But you could move, look for a new home, meet people along the way). What kind of conflict do you have in a Utopia. I mean, there is One Punch Man, who doesn't have the classical shonen conflict that can be solved with violence, and instead has other conflicts. So you could tell the story of a Dystopia and a Utopia in the same setting.Ĭlick to shrink.That sounds like a fun writing challenge. The opposite of that would be a Paradise held up by a part of the population that suffers for it. Here, I'm assuming a pure Dystopia and a pure Utopia where either almost everyone is either in a very bad situation or a very good situation. You can expand it, yes, but a colony on Mars won't enhance the general situation of the population of Earth in the Utopia. It can't get significantly better, it just stays nice or gets worse, which would create conflict. The optimistic look into the future that everything gets better. That's something you can't really have with the Utopia. Nuclear wasteland vs totalitarian Control for example. I would also say that it depends on how the setting of the Dystopia is constructed. Maybe they are starting with rebuilding and giving an optimistic view into the future, or the great evil regime has been defeated. In a way all superheroes are a dystopia, since no matter how many villains they ground pound, another always takes their place.Ĭlick to shrink.Is it still a Dystopia at that point, though?Ī setting can change greatly over the coures of a story. I do not have a favorite as I really do not like dystopian stories. Since the humans do not act much different than us, so they would have the same social problems.ĥ. Because sooner or later people would want the real deal.
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Realistically it woud be full of rape and crime because of all the holodecks they have, but ST never has addressed that.
I do not have any fictional ones, as most I have seen are just *closet* dystopias. The only difficulty is imagining what role scifi technology would play inside the dystopia.Ĥ. It is hardly difficult since human history is filled with them down to the present. One possible challenge is deciding what role scifi technology will play, but I do not view it as a difficulty. It is fiction for entertainment and perhaps, or maybe even especially perspective. Some view this as a model to live up to but I never have.
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