Utopia Is Creepy

Re:Utopia Is Creepy by michaelchisari on Saturday October 29, 2011 @04:36PM (#3172736)

I agree with this completely. In a sense, the dystopian presentation of a movie like Blade Runner or Akira feels oddly more comforting. Street venders, gangs of kids doing nothing in particular, smokers, etc. Even the cleanest, most polite scandinavian social democracy still has all these things, but they're conveniently left out of these "utopian" visions.

I think, if anything triggers our discomfort, it's the subconscious question of what happened to them.

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Re:Utopia Is Creepy by jberryman on Saturday October 29, 2011 @06:45PM (#3173047)

I feel the same way about sterile utopia vs. messy blade runner-type worlds.

Interestingly I'm reading Snow Crash right now, which takes place in a world that is arguable similar to the one in Blade Runner, but the anarcho-capitalist aspect of the America depicted just really gives me the creeps.

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Re:Utopia Is Creepy by mcclung on Sunday October 30, 2011 @12:03AM (#3173604)

This video clearly takes place after all the undesirables have been sent to the Off World Colonies.

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Re:Utopia Is Creepy by jQueryIsAwesome on Saturday October 29, 2011 @05:23PM (#3172848)

>I think, if anything triggers our discomfort, it's the subconscious question of what happened to them.

I don't think is that, i think is the perceived monotony; like some lack of contrast between humans and their enviroment.

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