A Thought: On the Hope in Dystopia

There was a time when dystopian fiction was used to highlight the problems with the world as it was in an attempt to show how to fix them, to offer a cautionary roadmap in the imagination to prevent us from heading down the path in reality.

Now, it seems, with the market flooded with images of dystopian futures, on television, in movies and in literature, we've lost the hope, the caution, choosing, instead, to focus everything on the hellish hopelessness of it all.  There are no victories, no answers, no ways to stop it.  And that, to be certain, is the surest way to guarantee these dark visions become reality.