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by at_a_remove 1611 days ago
It is more than bizarre, it is a little scary.

Looking through the various dystopian fics, films, whatever, they all started as someone's utopia. Somebody out there thought this was a great idea. And like most great ideas you will have disagreement, which must be dealt with, because it's a great idea. Can't have the nay-saying. And the transformation to dystopia begins.

Just as an example from the article, a lot of the policy and planning around the pandemic assumed almost total compliance. This is not a reasonable assumption.

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> Looking through the various dystopian fics, films, whatever, they all started as someone's utopia.

Exactly! This is always what happens when people have more loyalty to an ideology than to humans.