Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis
by appetizer on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:30AM
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The alpha and beta classes were not living in a dystopia. Seemed quite nice. Freedom to pursue intellectual endeavors, freedom to have sex with whomever you wanted with no consequence, a life of privilege.
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Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis
by tomp on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:47AM
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Except if they wanted to use their intellect to think critically, or wanted to move anywhere beyond sex...
Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis
by appetizer on Friday April 28, 2017 @01:37PM
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Brave New World is widely considered a dystopia, but it is an introspection and satire on existing societies, which for many people actually are dystopias. This is a separation from stories that focus on the post-apocalyptic aspects primarily to create the genre of "scifi dystopia". Therefore, viewing Brave New World as an introspection only leaves the parts of the society that I like as the part to evaluate to see an ideal segment of society, colloquially called a utopia:
- I want to be at the top of the pyramid society
- I want there to be no consequences for promiscuity
- I want a calming mind altering drug that has no side effects
- I want peace and stability to focus on my intellectual tasks
Brave New World accomplishes that.