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Dystopian, An Orwellian dystopia is based on and named after the book 1984…

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        Reliance on technology
        
        People in cyberpunk 2077 are over reliant of technology to the point there is entire black markets around the sale and installment of black market tech
        
        Powerful rich
        
        The rich and powerful in cyberpunk live lavishly with superior, safer technology while the the rest of society is left with unsafe, dangerous technology and depressing disgusting streets
        
        Mixture of phildickian and huxleyan
        
        Cyberpunk 2077 is a mix of phildickian and huxleyan with strong themes of technology being used to control the population mixed in with pleasure being used to keep people docile
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        Kafkaesque
        
        The endless bureaucracy of kafka is ever present in helldivers 2 with equipment invaluable and life saving equipment being locked behind in game currency "samples" with the in game reason being simply that you haven't got the permit for it or that you don't have the right supply lines
        
        Blind patriotism
        
        The helldivers in helldivers 2 are undyingly and blindly patriotic to super earth, with many of their voice lines being some variation of "for super earth!" this shows how brainwashed they are by the propaganda they are fed
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        Robot invasion
        
        A classic trope in dystopias, the fear of being taken over by robots or AI is a genuine, real fear people have today with people being scared of AI stealing their jobs. In terminator however the robots take over by force, killing people with guns and making themselves armoured and resistant to bullets or most arms fire from humans.
        
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        Time travel
        
        Time travel is also a classic trope in sci-fi media, being in many ways such as to create paradoxes or to make the story more complex to make the audience focus harder. It's used in terminator to have the terminator come back into the modern day.
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        Population control
        
        The way the population is controlled in We Happy Few is via pills, quite aptly named "joy". It makes people see the world as much happier and brighter than the actual, dingy, depressing reality.
        
        Huxleyan themes
        
        We Happy Few has extremely strong Huxleyan themes, with the on the nose use of pills to control the population, which is a strong parallel to Huxleyan dystopias
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        Population control
        
        The general population in Ready Player One is controlled with the use of technology, with most of them choosing to live in a virtual reality because of how poor the conditions are in the real world
        
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        Phildickian themes
        
        Ready Player One has very strong Phildickian themes, in fact it may be the first piece of media one thinks of when thinking about Phildickinan dystopias. This is because the over reliance on technology and the fact the majority of people live in a fake, "Erstaz", version of the world.
        
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- - - - Absurd situations and reactions such as the metamorphosis where a man turns into a bug and worries about being late for work
    - - An absurd, complex and illogical bureaucracy that lacks transparency and has endless red tape, making doing anything nearly impossible
    - - A lot of circular reasoning from the characters who find themselves in these absurd and illogical situations, ironically making it worse for themselves
    - - Absurd situations/ puzzles
      - Investigating an illogical and absurd bureaucracy
  - - - In a phildickian dystopia the world is heavily reliant on technology and lives in a false world or a "erstaz" version of the world which corporations use to control people
    - - Another theme is paranoia, where the character cannot trust the world around them because it is controlled by the powerful
    - - The charatcers in a phildickian dystopia often wrangle with their identity, questioning themselves when their memories can be easily replaced or distorted
    - - The world in a phildickian dystopia is largely controlled by the elites, using technology to control the population by keeping them in a fake, distorted version of the world
    - - Distorted reality
      - Fighting paranoia and identity loss
  - - - Constant, Intrusive surveillance to make the general population adhere strictly to the rules of the government, fearing punishment
    - - Use of fear tactics such as violence to suppress rebellion and opposition
    - - Making the general population use language that changes how they think to control them
    - - Strong government that uses forms of control such as surveillance, Fear and Newsepak
    - - avoiding surveillance
      - fighting against a authoritarian regime
  - - - Rampant consumerism is used to control people by keeping them in a constant state of short lived euphoria of buying things
    - - A Huxleyan dystopia uses pleasure to keep citizens docile and make them believe that they are happy because of their short lived pleasure such as drugs, sex, alcohol and other forms of short lived pleasures
    - - Technology is used to keep people docile by keeping them distracted by stimulating their senses with "the feelies". it is also used to psychologically condition people from a young age, such as harming babies when exposed to books so they form a pavlovian reaction to books and anything that may make them break free of the illusion of happiness.
    - - Breaking free of the illusion
      - fighting the urge to submit to simple pleasures
      - trying to break others free of the illusion
- - - - There is a current fear in society of the lack of literacy in many children and teenagers, commonly noticed on social media there are a significant enough number of people failing to use basic literacy such as misspellings, mistaking homophones (their/they're/there) and sentences with little to no proper grammar. This links heavily to a Huxleyan dystopia because in his writings books are banned, making the population less literate, making them easier to control.
    - - A big fear of people is the lack of media literacy in people which is the ability to understand and scrutinize the media they consume and being able to understand the accuracy and credibility of what they consume. The fears are that people are either becoming too docile, too incompetent or too trusting to understand and critique the media they consume
    - - Brainrot is a major concern of people because of its impact on kids and their attention spans and literacy because of its overstimulating nature and its often illogical and meaninglessness. This also links to a Huxleyan dystopia because in this type of dystopia, stimulating media is used to make people docile and distracted from reality.
  - - - In many cases the government or government officials commits illegal actions and gets away with it, a recent example of this is the Epstein files exposing several high ranking government officials as criminals including the president of the united states and no action whatsoever has been taken to enforce the law or punish these people whatsoever
    - - The fears of militaristic enforcement of the governments ideals is a current fear in large part due to the government agency I.C.E which has been on the news frequently due to their similarities to dystopias such as Orwells 1984.
    - - The government has been proven to use unreasonable and unethical ways to control or attempt to control the population, notably the experiment MK ultra, which was testing the effectiveness of drugs on controlling people.
  - - - The overuse of technology is a fear that has been around since technology has been around, fears such as making people less intelligent, less physically able and less mentally able. A current fear is the fear of AI and fears of it taking jobs, harming the environment and making people less intelligent and overly dependant on it
    - - There is a present fear that technology in education is harming the development of younger children, making them inattentive and overall less intelligent due to the bright colours and addictive nature of technologies such as ipads or overstimulating videos
    - - Surveillance is a very real fear in today's society because of the large amount of technology that is inside of our homes and it has been proven that the technology in our homes can and has been used to spy and surveil people without them being aware whatsoever.