1. La Realidad Refleja la Ficción.
Muchos expresan una creciente dificultad para distinguir entre las narrativas distópicas y los eventos actuales, sintiendo que el mundo real se ha vuelto tan o más extraño que las historias de ficción que solían ser una forma de escapismo.
- It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between dystopian fiction and reality.
- I preferred when dystopian fiction was fiction. “in the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives.”.
- Wild how reality can feel more dystopian than fiction sometimes.
- Feeling like we should rename the dystopian fiction genre. Maybe we should call it “current events.”.
- Dystopian fiction is irrelevant when the dystopia is reality. Philip k dick is rolling in his grave.
2. La Advertencia Ignorada.
Un sentimiento recurrente es la frustración de que las obras distópicas, concebidas como advertencias para evitar futuros sombríos, parecen haber sido interpretadas por algunos como manuales de instrucciones o guías a seguir.
- Dystopian fiction is often grounded in reality. It was meant to be a warning, not a manual.
- Dystopic fiction is meant as a warning, not a playbook.
- I "love" when people read dystopian novels and don't take them as warnings. Either they brush it off as dramatic fiction that won't happen, or worse use them as a how-to guide.
- Guys i think we need to stop making dystopian fiction i think we're giving the wrong people ideas.
- Absolute fucking ghouls. Dystopian fiction was meant to be a warning, not an instruction manual. And reality tv was a mistake.
3. Crítica del Presente, No Predicción del Futuro.
Varios comentarios subrayan que la ficción distópica no busca predecir el futuro con exactitud, sino que funciona como una crítica o un espejo de las tendencias y problemas alarmantes de la sociedad contemporánea.
- Dystopian fiction does not predict the future, it critiques the present. We have been heading this way for decades, and for some, we have been there all along.
- The thing about dystopian fiction is, it's never a prediction of the future. It's a mirror held up to the present.
- The purpose of dystopic fiction is not to accurately predict the entirety of the future. It is to gather attention to alarming elements of the present.
- Currently watching people discover that dystopian fiction is a commentary on what is happening not what could happen.
- I always liked the idea that dystopian fiction isn't a warning of the future but a criticism of the present.
4. El Fin del Escapismo.
La creciente similitud entre la realidad y la ficción distópica ha provocado que muchos lectores abandonen el género. Lo que antes era una fuente de entretenimiento ahora genera ansiedad y resulta demasiado cercano a la vida cotidiana.
- I haven’t picked up any dystopian fiction since about 2017 because i don’t need to read a “fiction” that has become real life.
- I will check it out. However, i try to stay away from dystopian fiction. The real world seems to be careening too close to it already.
- May i ask you if it is dystopian because, tbh, real life is bad enough. I can't take it in the fiction i read right now.
- My enjoyment of reading dystopian fiction novels is ruined now that i am living it.
- I used to love dystopian fiction and would consume it regularly, but in the last couple of years, i just haven’t been able to do it because reality is already fucking dystopian enough.