Your worth 10 points.

Atlas Shrugged parts I, II, III ...

for our overlords. It really didn't address the results. But good observation!

Not necessarily widespread infertility, that's more a plot-driving concept.

But certainly the balkanization of The US after a second civil war, with the Bible Belt becoming a Theocracy.

I'm as certain of this outcome as a True Believer is that the world was created by an Intelligent Designer ("God" wink-wink).

Since I live in the depths of the New Confederacy I would, as an atheist, undoubtedly find my end in the Auto-de-Fe. Fortunately, I don't believe this will happen in the near future and my life will have ended before it comes to pass.

I could be wrong about that, though. I see a lot of the same indicators that presaged the Civil War and that developed quite quickly after only stewing for about 10 years. It's been 14 years since Saint Bush the Second ascended the throne.

We're on the verge of cracking aging, but only the rich and powerful will be able to afford the treatment -- by design.

Not the Edmund O'Brien one--the one with John Hurt.

Oh wait--we've already passed that point.

Or you could have a waffle.

Never heard of Snow piercer looks new this year

Calling torture "enhanced interogation techniques", what is that but Newspeak?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]

...involuntarily?

with a heavy dash of THX1138 along with some Running Man (particularly the book) and Hunger Games to maintain the bread and circuses flavor levels.

.. and most of its premises are already here, just with not quite the intensity portrayed in the film.

...with a touch of "Terminator" for finalism.

Plus the violent sport to placate the masses. Hell, except for the drab clothing we are already there.

But the bad cop wins.
Actually, it's already a reality.

We are almost there already.

I'm a third generation teacher, and I've already been teaching quite a few years.

One of the most chilling conversations I've ever had with my mother was when we were discussing our favorite books to teach. She loved teaching Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, and Macbeth. Me I love teaching Huck Finn, anything Steinbeck ever wrote. We realized that we both loved teaching 1984.

What creeped us both out a little bit was that when she taught it, starting in the 60s, she taught it as prediction: a warning about what the future could turn into. When I teach it now, I teach it as the past, and instead of students predicting what will come true, we spend a great deal of time figuring out what already has come true. Most of it, except with an oligarchy instead of a dictatorship.

Sad to agree it's gone that way. In a sense, you're presenting it as an historical novel then, despite it being a futuristic work.

We need more teachers like you!

n/t

in the dark gritty world of Bladerunner.

We know how that story ends. And it's not pretty.

The Titanic has always been thought of as a time capsule of the Gilded Age. There were the ultra-rich in first class; the mostly cultured and educated but not as wealthy second class; and dirt-poor immigrants in third class who were on their way to America, hoping to build better lives. The three did not mingle, either on land or on the ship; society was very stratified. That was just the way it worked. Then the ship hit that iceberg, and nothing was the same again. Sound familiar?

I believe if a person from the turn of the twentieth century were to come back now, he or she would find much that would be familiar in today's social structure. See History Channel's riveting "The Men Who Built America" for further details.

Hmmm . . . I may have an idea for a novel here.

For the working poor it's been a reality since the inception of this country. For minorities it's a daily thing. For people who have lost ground economically it's becoming a reality if it isn't already their new reality. Some working people are monitored all day by their bosses and that includes doing some things that are not illegal in their off time. IE some jobs you get fired if you smoke even if it's at home. Facebook is being monitored by LEOs so what you do at home on your time can put you on a list. Unless you are the 1% there really isn't anything to protect you from making the wrong person angry and ending up in legal trouble. The best you can hope for is to lay low and not make waves. Or make some waves, but you better be very well educated on knowing your rights.

I saw it a decade or so ago. It had a modern day sound track added.

Wow is all I can say.

But by then we are too wrapped up on "Monday Night Rehabilitation" to see it coming.

Don't suspect a friend; report him

Confess quickly, son! You don't want to jeopardize your credit rating!

And of course, the looming threat of terrorism.

Justified, obviously, but just as easily misplaced.

but I voted for Idiocracy.

And yes the anthro MLP Friendship is Magic movies are dystopian, but only insofar as they relate to Equestria. Ignore them as I do and it's no problem. They aren't canon and never will be in my eyes and heart. Now the excellent comics are a different issue entirely!

Sometimes I think that Lars von Trier's "Melancholia"is the fate the human species deserves.

Shape shifting young zombie republican alien lizards... check

He slips on the glasses — and what we see over the next several minutes is something no other movie has attempted as plainly

. Billboards become bold-text messages. A bikini-clad woman is replaced by "MARRY AND REPRODUCE."

Magazine racks exhort us to "CONSUME" and "OBEY."

A wad of bills in a vendor's hand says "THIS IS YOUR GOD."

Tent Cities. with underemployed homeless..... check


They influence our decisions without us knowing it......... check


They numb our senses without us feeling it................check


They control our lives without us realizing it.

Check


They are destroying the planet. for their unknown purpose......... check




I WIN THE THREAD..... now go chew some gum.

I loved the machines spitting out tickets for swearing!

Also, Snowpiercer is a fucking amazing movie, watch that shit right now.

I don't think we can come up with one single classic dystopia the US is falling into, but you could find little pieces of every dystopia in our current condition...Fahrenheit 451 would also apply, a little bit of Mad Max, perhaps a touch of the Running Man and Starship Troopers?

Where the über rich really do live on another plane of existence, while the meek literally inherit the earth?

Drown it in a gravy of the precious juice from Road Warrior.

I've had it in my LoveFilm (similar to NetFlix) queue for ages but never got around to watching it. The most plausible dystopia, in my opinion, isn't on screen. It's the one depicted in the opening chapters of Ben Elton's "Blind Faith".

a little bit of mad max, a little bit of Ever Since the World Ended, tank girl, downstream, book of eli, postman, the road, etc.

Hopefully no On the Beach and The Day After.

Its possible to pre select your children for "favorable," genetic and racial "advantages."