npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 (npub1psd…9sr7) Stepping back to the purely writing question of this: I sometimes teach a course called "Psychology in Science Fiction." One thing the students and I discovered one semester is that you can set up a solid dystopian world in a few tried-and-true ways, including: A reasonable-sounding rule or law is administered in technically consistent but problematic way (often by a bad actor or someone/something with no consideration for kindness, harm, etc.).
It actually feels (to me) difficult to find any generalized rule that couldn't be used to create a dystopia this way.
Hm. Now I want to test that proposition.
Guy Jantic /
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