Thing

“What makes Dystopias so compelling is that they confirm us in our belief that we have seen the world as it truly is, at its bleak, horrific worst in those moments when the baseness and brutality of humanity is most vivid and heart-sinkingly pervasive. Those times when we’re stripped momentarily of our idealism and hope, and can see that it’s all gone to shit and that it will never get better. We find it simultaneously reassuring and depressing that we have seen things as they really are. The act of recognition and independent confirmation brings a kind of resigned acceptance.”