Dream A Little
By Jitya Bagga - (H-586) Wednesday, Feb 10, 2021
Dystopia - an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
Just take a moment to notice the use of the word imagined. The dystopian world is an imagination and therefore can be subjective. Our interpretation of dystopia is not always the same except when we pick up the political aspect of the term. Then yes, the word symbolises a totalitarian state, one whose government, knee deep in deceit and corruption, is stealing from its own citizens, stealing the rights of its citizens to be free and exercise independent will.
For this article though I want to focus on a more personalised concept of dystopia because not everyone’s dystopia is a world tainted with suffering. For example, a murderer’s idea will be the opposite of a person who is righteous. A righteous person will declare a world without morals and ethics dystopian but in this world, murder won’t be a sin so it would be utopia for the killer.
Utopia- an imagined state or society which is perfect, where the people work together and are happy.
We have a definition for the word but has anyone really lived in a utopian world? Have you ever thought about what your utopia would look like? Your perfect land, where you are free to be who you want to be and do what you want to do without having to answer to anyone. Utopia too can be a subjective concept and understood differently by different people. What most of us consider utopia today is a democratic and liberal state but that is what a totalitarian dictator would find dystopian.
Everyone has a dream of their perfect world that is modelled around their whims and desires, the good and the bad. That’s where most of our actions come from, a desire to achieve our own utopia. All we can do is hope that this utopia so many of us dream about is just and liberal and equal for all. A world where anarchy and chaos are things only found in dystopian novels. A world where the minorities can believe their voice will be heard. And I know that as long as there are dreamers left to dream of this utopia there will never come a time when evil will be crowned victor. And I know what we would do to keep this dream alive, to feel the ebb and pull of the bigger dream that holds us all together.
Anything.
Everything.
Jitya Bagga - (H-586)
PreSc-C
