Utopias & Dystopias

UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS

ARE HUMAN RIGHTS ALWAYS A PART OF THEM?

Yes. Let’s explore how.

What happens when our reproduction is brought into question?

There is no happy ending for our protagonist; likewise, there is no happy ending for nearly any of the women. Both the book and the show, for many women around the world, are reminiscent of a horror story; a story many women live out in real life, being forced to carry a child that was never their choice.

But What About Not Being Able To Have Children At All?

Utopia (2013) is a TV show that aired on Channel 4 in the UK. The Big Bad of the series is an organization called The Network who believe the world is overcrowded, with dwindling resources, and their plan to combat that is to forcibly sterilize the population, leaving only a small percentage fertile.

You might have noticed that none of these are truly utopias; the truth is, there is no story without conflict and there is no conflict in a true utopia.

One man’s utopia is another man’s dystopia.

Utopias are supposed to be perfect worlds – but what a perfect world is depends completely upon the individual being asked.

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