Dystopianism The Fallacy For The Future Analysis

“Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”

—Yevgeny Zamyatin

Utopianism: The Fallacy for a Future

The ultimate goal of any civilization is to create a perfect utopian society; however, whether fictional or not, all seem to fail in the process—digressing into a dystopian realm with the lack of freedom and personal spirit. The definition of utopia is “an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect;” nevertheless, the dictators of today seem to misunderstand the fact that a utopia is only possible in an imagined place. Therefore, the imagined perfection soon deviates into a dystopia, or a “state in which everything is unpleasant or

For instance, T.H. White’s The Once and Future King illustrates the difference between a utopia and a dictatorship. From the beginning, Arthur strives to create a perfect society after seeing how utterly grotesque a dictatorship can be; however, he fails to complete his promise of perfection, falling into a twisted web of mistrust and dystopian characteristics. For example, when Merlyn says to Wart that he should “make [his] ideas available, and do not impose them on other people” (267), he expresses how dystopias usually come from rulers with absolute power. Much like The Once and Future King and many of the failed communist nations of the Twentieth Century, The World State of Aldous Huxely’s Brave New World aims at disarming the people to gain full control over them. From before the future offspring are even born, they are selected and modified for certain qualities and then categorized by their level of superiority—Alpha Plusses are at the peak of the gene pool and thus are more concerned with intellectual work, while Epsilons are specialized for more trivial tasks and genetically too dumb to care otherwise. The Epsilons of this twisted reality learn from day one that “for particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and

Winston Churchill explicitly says that “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Nonetheless, the next president of the United States may just well be a declared socialist. Many people justify and support socialism, just as Stalin justified genocide; however, Ayn Rand states that “there is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate goal: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism by vote. It 's merely the difference between murder and suicide.” As a whole communism has killed millions, the German version of The Black Book of Communism, entitled Das Schwarzbuch des Kommunismus: Die Aufarbeitung des Sozialismus in der DDR, attempts to give “. . . some sense of scale and gravity of these crimes: U.S.S.R.: 20 million deaths, China: 65 million deaths, Vietnam: 1 million deaths, Cambodia: 2 million deaths, Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths, Latin America: 150,000 deaths, Africa: 1.7 million deaths, Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths, The international communist movement and Communist Parties not in power: 10,000 deaths. The total approaches 100 million people killed” (4). If killing was used as a tactic to control the people, these deaths show just how uncontrollable people are, and forever will