How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler

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The genre of dystopia - the ‘not good place’- has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how dystopias act as cautionary tales - not about some particular government or technology, but the very idea that humanity can be molded into an ideal shape.
Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by TED-Ed.

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  • @kairuihu5977
    @kairuihu59772 жыл бұрын

    I thought the title said "How to recognize a dyslexia", than I realized it actually said "how to recognize a dystopia", than I realized that this is probably how you recognize a dyslexia.

  • @jtm8514

    @jtm8514

    2 жыл бұрын

    Task failed successfully?

  • @jamiesophiepostler1452

    @jamiesophiepostler1452

    2 жыл бұрын

    This comment is gold

  • @kevinakers9133

    @kevinakers9133

    2 жыл бұрын

    Actually laughed out loud

  • @Jadeserphant

    @Jadeserphant

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dyslexia keeps life interesting sometimes, doesn't it? I've nearly wrecked more than once when I've misread a sign and did a double take. Lol

  • @rainbowssparkle1499

    @rainbowssparkle1499

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh this made me chuckle out loud!

  • @baronvonbork2856
    @baronvonbork28563 жыл бұрын

    The fact that every dystopia is someone's utopia both fascinates and horrifies me at the same time

  • @sanityslayer5291

    @sanityslayer5291

    3 жыл бұрын

    ikr

  • @TheFartGod69

    @TheFartGod69

    2 жыл бұрын

    Usually because it’s a dystopia for the ones on the bottom, it’s a utopia for the few in power

  • @nimbletimplekins7601

    @nimbletimplekins7601

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheFartGod69 it's also a utopia for drones empowered by the system's propaganda. See: Brave New World

  • @TheFartGod69

    @TheFartGod69

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nimbletimplekins7601 that’s a whole other debate. Does a lack of free will with supposedly more happiness real happiness? Are they true,y happy if it’s their only choice? I’m about to go to sleep so I’ll ponder this another time though I’d hear what you have to say :)

  • @mattmiller2842

    @mattmiller2842

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheFartGod69 it's best embodied by the conflict of collectivism vs individualism. The countries represented are the US who invades others and has handled covid horribly vs China who send minorities to concentration camps and has handled the pandemic amazingly. Who's worse? It depends on who you are and what you believe.

  • @colmil5
    @colmil53 жыл бұрын

    Whoever does the animation on these videos needs a raise

  • @Chroniknight

    @Chroniknight

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ya that's actually quite well done

  • @clary6511
    @clary6511 Жыл бұрын

    I love reading dystopian books because they often represent problems we have in our society but exaggeratedly and I think that such as the people in the stories change their worlds we should improve ours too (just preferably not as a revolution like in those books)

  • @haneulo

    @haneulo

    2 ай бұрын

    no idea who you are but hope you don’t mind if I take this concept for my essay ✊✊

  • @areejps

    @areejps

    2 ай бұрын

    but nothing will change if it is not a revolution , only power can defeat power, and dystopian worlds are a form of power in the hand of those corrupted governors !

  • @Codo_Lyoko

    @Codo_Lyoko

    9 күн бұрын

    What dystopian books do you read?

  • @clary6511

    @clary6511

    9 күн бұрын

    @@Codo_Lyoko usually the ones that include supernatural stuff; some of my favourites are renegades (Marissa Meyer), the host (Stephenie Meyer), Alice (Christina Henry), spring storm (Marie Graßhoff), shatter me (Tahereh Mafi), elite (Vivien Summer) or anything from Anna Benning (tho I‘m not sure if each of these books would be a perfect example for a dystopia, these are just some that give me a dystopian vibe)

  • @Codo_Lyoko

    @Codo_Lyoko

    8 күн бұрын

    @@clary6511 oh sweet! I don’t really mind if they’re not the most dystopian books, I’m just trying to find books to read in general since im new to it, I’ll probably put some of those on my to-read list after I finish Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

  • @TheBaaz07
    @TheBaaz077 жыл бұрын

    this narrator's voice is beautiful. Dear Ted if youre listening, please, never lose this guy.

  • @TheArchsage74

    @TheArchsage74

    7 жыл бұрын

    For a second I thought that you thought his name was Ted

  • @jonsnowandghost

    @jonsnowandghost

    7 жыл бұрын

    shahbaz khan Who's Ted?

  • @marm818

    @marm818

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Jim Carrot TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design.

  • @anyarr

    @anyarr

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Mar Taf I think Jim Carrot was joking, because Ted is also a common name and shahbaz forgot to capitalize "TED".

  • @anyarr

    @anyarr

    7 жыл бұрын

    Also, is it just me, or is his voice a little _too_ monotone? It seems like it's just me anyways...

  • @Jules-mt1xz
    @Jules-mt1xz5 жыл бұрын

    The utopia of some is the dystopia of others.

  • @jamiehammond7401

    @jamiehammond7401

    5 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely

  • @dantepadilla5354

    @dantepadilla5354

    5 жыл бұрын

    You could not be more correct, and I could not agree more.

  • @Kalorag

    @Kalorag

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not if you take your soma....just cople of half gram tablets a day...

  • @choiyatlam2552

    @choiyatlam2552

    4 жыл бұрын

    I question this statement. Dystopia can be a world of Kafka, where everyone, including the so-called leader may not be happy at all. Nonetheless, everyone fear that the world would get even worse if the order is threatened so nobody dare to change. Then they start defending and legitimizing the tyranny.

  • @manicpepsicola3431

    @manicpepsicola3431

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Kalorag gimme like 3

  • @sahilalombarbhuiya4832
    @sahilalombarbhuiya48322 жыл бұрын

    I read the Gulliver's Travels when I was 14. I thought it to be a children's book and it never striked me to be a dystopia or a satire... The older I'm the more comlicated my life is getting! :')

  • @rbarnes4076

    @rbarnes4076

    8 ай бұрын

    Swift was a master of allegory. Allegory doesn't work with kids.. not enough experience. And I thought the same as you when I was a kid.

  • @Jasondurgen

    @Jasondurgen

    8 ай бұрын

    Same here.

  • @malup1117
    @malup11173 жыл бұрын

    To me, a “utopia” on earth feels scary. If everything is perfect, what do we work toward?

  • @Orange_Swirl

    @Orange_Swirl

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maintaining it. Through any means necessary.

  • @cockycookie1

    @cockycookie1

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Orange_Swirl and that's where it gets dark again

  • @Orange_Swirl

    @Orange_Swirl

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cockycookie1 Exactly.

  • @dnhdfnfkrjxjxfjjggj3002

    @dnhdfnfkrjxjxfjjggj3002

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cockycookie1 yes

  • @sihamazhar625

    @sihamazhar625

    2 жыл бұрын

    For me this itself is dystopian thinking.

  • @popalupa4844
    @popalupa48447 жыл бұрын

    Basically, what I got from this is that it is impossible for humanity to achieve perfection.

  • @artwingtonr.4647

    @artwingtonr.4647

    7 жыл бұрын

    We are living in a utopia already, don't you see? It has everything: happiness, sadness, the freedom to learn, the censorship of knowledge, progress, tragedy, peace, war, the room for growth... We are living in the best which society can be...

  • @artwingtonr.4647

    @artwingtonr.4647

    7 жыл бұрын

    We have different ways of defining utopia

  • @dorka9268

    @dorka9268

    7 жыл бұрын

    there is no such thing as perfection

  • @katphisH11

    @katphisH11

    7 жыл бұрын

    That's why it's called "utopia".

  • @ianslai

    @ianslai

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hello Pangloss ;-)

  • @shoothemdown4302
    @shoothemdown43027 жыл бұрын

    Damn, school seems pointless when you can just watch this channel all day

  • @yeojin4thgenmainslayyer898

    @yeojin4thgenmainslayyer898

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ooh yes

  • @illizcit1

    @illizcit1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cheaper too.

  • @sasharacket2907

    @sasharacket2907

    5 жыл бұрын

    MatPat + TedED = Unstoppable Hyperintelligent Ruler of the Universe

  • @Tamtonian

    @Tamtonian

    5 жыл бұрын

    School is designed for the mundane and average.

  • @tienpham3983

    @tienpham3983

    5 жыл бұрын

    2×(3-2×(23÷1)-38) = ?

  • @satnamo
    @satnamo2 жыл бұрын

    Love others as I love my self- That is all we need to make a paradise on earth because people are so good at making others suffer.

  • @colelevel2654
    @colelevel26542 ай бұрын

    "Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions" is an underrated book I would consider a dystopia. It's about shapes living in a 2d world, with class structures based on how many sides a shape has, and throughout the story a square finds out about the third dimension and the other flatlanders refuse to believe him or that there's anything outside of their world. It's scarily accurate to today's society for a book written in 1884.

  • @austinh1805
    @austinh18057 жыл бұрын

    That last bit of imagery was very powerful

  • @islezeus

    @islezeus

    7 жыл бұрын

    indeed

  • @GG-wy8pk

    @GG-wy8pk

    7 жыл бұрын

    yeah

  • @hoangduong2759

    @hoangduong2759

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Anime Fan I'm not so sure either. But I can say that the video creators imply that the "perfect world" is built upon the foundation of an "imperfect world". In other word, there can't be a completely perfect society.

  • @austinh1805

    @austinh1805

    7 жыл бұрын

    Well Caen... I agree for a lot of what you said, but that last portion was a bit... I don't know. Impractical? Extreme? But I won't be the guy who makes the mistake to say it's "wrong". But I want to see if I can offer a better system. Your system has a few flaws. First off, nukes would fuck us all if your system come into being. But lets assume there are no nukes, what you proposed is not really a system, it's a lack of one. What you proposed is anarchy. One of the basic principles of government is that since anarchy is the rock bottom, things can only get more orderly from anarchy. From anarchy, the most common thing to arise is a monarchy. This would be your "big ball of evil none of them will dare fuck with". But monarchies don't last. "Big balls of evil" fall, every time. So your system just leads us backward, where we are is definitely better than that. Alright, so now we need a better system than yours. Well... our current one is better then yours, but it's still pretty shit. The best system for government so far has been a benevolent monarchy. A monarch who does good to the people and improves on preexisting infrastructure. The only problems is that people die, and their successor may be horrible. But during the time a benevolent monarch is alive, countries make the most progress and are generally in the best state. What we need is a benevolent monarch who doesn't die... a decent AI. For now that's all hopes and dreams, but that would be the best system of government. That is, if you can't think of a better one.

  • @recordkeeper4761

    @recordkeeper4761

    7 жыл бұрын

    But Austin there is still a problem with that. You've forgotten that every monarch in history no matter how benevolent is not infallible. And that's talking about internal and external toxicity. A benevolent AI is no exception to this. There will be imperfection in the ability to govern to ensure happiness and there will be a chance the program could somehow become corrupted. For a human the corruption would come because of temptation; for the AI the corruption could come from a tiny undetectable flaw in reasoning and logic that would exponentially grow and taint the rest of the programing over time. There is no way to insure that any one person or thing we place absolute power on could ensure the happiness of all kinds Because some logic has to be put over others. That is why we have democracy were the people decide who and what they are governed by. I relize that system hasn't been perfect but haven't you ever thought that might not be the systems fault? Democracy depends on the decisions of the people. What if the people part of democracy make the wrong decision for themselves? In that case, would it even be the governments fault? Has it ever been the case where it's been all our fault and we just blamed the government? A totalitarian regime is too easy to fall into corruption. Even an immortal AI can't be infallible to earth shattering mistakes. And even if it is it can't stay that way forever. Nothing last's forever. Ideas change and power shifts. In that sense change is the only certainty. In the past we were convinced that whatever regime we were in was perfect and the only way it could end was by external forces. Now we've almost done a 360. Now we see more threats coming from inside our regimes than from without. I'd say it's impossible to make a system that can't be spectacularly demolished from either and even more unlikely to make them infallible to both. I understand this was about thinking up a better system instead of a perfect one, but I think that some form of democracy is the best we've got. Simply for the reason that it can change and shift power inside of itself peacefully. Like I said change is the one certainty.

  • @ehekatzin.belai-al-rumi
    @ehekatzin.belai-al-rumi4 жыл бұрын

    TED-Ed: ...The floating island of Laputa... Spanish speakers: THE ISLAND OF THE WHAT!?!?

  • @alphaamoeba

    @alphaamoeba

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hah

  • @rohentahir4696

    @rohentahir4696

    4 жыл бұрын

    It translates to laputa..?

  • @alphaamoeba

    @alphaamoeba

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@rohentahir4696 laputa + space bar is la (which means "the" (feminine)) "p*ta" which is really strong swear word

  • @rohentahir4696

    @rohentahir4696

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh ok

  • @sirgromith

    @sirgromith

    4 жыл бұрын

    As i understand correctly It is The floating island of B*tches right?

  • @iLikeCrabrangoons
    @iLikeCrabrangoons Жыл бұрын

    Dystopia is my favorite genre to read. I love a well crafted idea that looks so nice and shiny on the outside and the deeper you dig the more horrifying it becomes.

  • @lillymirembe4474
    @lillymirembe44742 жыл бұрын

    The ending when he described how achieving a utopia would create a dystopia shook me. And how calm he sounded made it worse

  • @taiwandxt6493

    @taiwandxt6493

    8 ай бұрын

    Well it is true. The conceptual basis behind the human drive to create a Utopia is what leads to revolutionary terror, which is the basis for it to become dystopia. And if you critically think about it and take a step back and say that you won't do something like that such as murder opposition in your own moral crusade to create the ideal society, depending on how you define what is Utopia, could you even consider it Utopia at that point?

  • @giderahwolf
    @giderahwolf4 жыл бұрын

    Father taught me, "Utopia and Dystopia are the same thing. It's called Utopia on paper, and Dystopia, when you make it real." The older I am, the more I understand that.

  • @giderahwolf

    @giderahwolf

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@Mungo McGhee Because people still believe utopias are real and through this assumption, they make even more mess ? If so, I definitely agree.

  • @huesosdeperro3081

    @huesosdeperro3081

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your father is/was a damn savant. That's for sure.

  • @bruhbruh7660

    @bruhbruh7660

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wish I heard this earlier, it’s a good way to put the phenomena into words.

  • @Obi-Wen

    @Obi-Wen

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can we say that it appears that the best is bad, the worst is bad too; so we are technically better off with all the mess we already have and not venturing for the other two states. but second thought tells us that we are as bad as the two(essentially one) extremes, because we are already suffering immensely, considering the worst pain is the pain in the present. but (personal opinion alert) this will likely defeat the theories that suggest to live your own good life(like existentialism) because we have no where to go.

  • @giderahwolf

    @giderahwolf

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Obi-Wen Thanks for the comment. I would like to ask, can You elaborate more on the thought that the actual state - in between the extremes, or as You said, outside the one extreme - is seen as an immense suffering ? Are You pointing at the buddhistic view of our life, or something else ? Thanks in advance. :)

  • @kadius9251
    @kadius92514 жыл бұрын

    “How to recognise a dystopia” *Looks out the window* Yeah, I reckon we’re just about there...

  • @hannibalburgers477

    @hannibalburgers477

    3 жыл бұрын

    Whooa We're halfway there Edit: Since you guys left me hanging WHOOAAA LIVING ON A PRAYER

  • @valtteri7090

    @valtteri7090

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeap

  • @matthewbaker4885

    @matthewbaker4885

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'd say we're about a month or two away.

  • @definitelynotcole

    @definitelynotcole

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes life is so hard for us... and our freedoms are so limited... we clearly live in the worst of times...

  • @valtteri7090

    @valtteri7090

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@definitelynotcole I know right.. Unbearable.

  • @wholesomedegenerate869
    @wholesomedegenerate8692 жыл бұрын

    4:08 that oddly satisfying part when the horizon lines up with the center of the division

  • @rex_incognito1
    @rex_incognito18 ай бұрын

    These ted ed videos on topics like these are one of my favourite things on KZread

  • @bruh-di4ku
    @bruh-di4ku7 жыл бұрын

    And then, the fire nation attacked.

  • @neve6759

    @neve6759

    5 жыл бұрын

    CheerwineIsLit butI believe, Ang can save the world!

  • @elfferich1212

    @elfferich1212

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lmfao

  • @isummer9140

    @isummer9140

    5 жыл бұрын

    CheerwineIsLit lol

  • @bananaborealis9515

    @bananaborealis9515

    5 жыл бұрын

    yup

  • @deehassan4488

    @deehassan4488

    5 жыл бұрын

    when the world needed him the most...HE VANISHED

  • @yashsrivastava5227
    @yashsrivastava52275 жыл бұрын

    That last bit there is so well done, when he illustrates how utopian thinking can lead to a dystopia

  • @sarahthomas8670

    @sarahthomas8670

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yash Srivastava ikr

  • @tommeng6522

    @tommeng6522

    4 жыл бұрын

    It also represents capitalism lol

  • @subsvids-jg7lb

    @subsvids-jg7lb

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tommeng6522 which is sadly the biggest form of economy

  • @Analysis_Paralysis

    @Analysis_Paralysis

    4 жыл бұрын

    The claim that utopian thinking leads to dystopia is a) a fallacy. b) comes from a place of privilege.

  • @omkhetz3798

    @omkhetz3798

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tommeng6522 if you think Capitalism is bad, I want you to say it to someone who lives in India, a place where people couldn't open businesses and now due to Capitalist policies, is now the fastest growing major nation on earth

  • @syppy7416
    @syppy7416 Жыл бұрын

    2:57 can we all just take a moment to appreciate how well worded those two statements were? like, he could've just said "Like The Soviets and The Nazis" but he talked about what they were about!

  • @somethingelse4150
    @somethingelse41502 жыл бұрын

    I was always excitedly anticipating a post apocalyptic dystopia, until I realized we are already living in it. It happened while we were distracted.

  • @Lanuzos

    @Lanuzos

    8 ай бұрын

    It was already building up when humans forced common social norms on each other. Not everyone will feel comfortable living under the circumstances of civilization, some people differ too much in their spiritual needs and in their perception of those social norms to live well along with them. For everyone not finding peace in society, life becomes a dystopia. And I doubt that you can easily find another environment to live in if you don’t have much perspectives

  • @ramonfry9673

    @ramonfry9673

    7 ай бұрын

    I don't know about that, the power is still on over here. I'll believe it from the store is empty and people start eating each other.

  • @1ucasvb
    @1ucasvb7 жыл бұрын

    That ending was amazing. Thanks for this!

  • @DavidPerez-vy7kv

    @DavidPerez-vy7kv

    7 жыл бұрын

    1ucasvb if it is not perfect then it can not be ideal. meaning: it might be difficult but I refuse tu believe imposible. So ue need to keep trying...

  • @jakovvodanovic9165

    @jakovvodanovic9165

    7 жыл бұрын

    +David Pérez Agreed, I believe Utopia is achievable.

  • @anyarr

    @anyarr

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Jakov Vodanovic How so?

  • @sinisacvetic1122

    @sinisacvetic1122

    7 жыл бұрын

    I suggest reading about anarchism. Btw, the idea that "utopia is impossible" does not justify that we should live in a crappy world.

  • @1ucasvb

    @1ucasvb

    7 жыл бұрын

    Totally agreed, +Siniša Cvetić. My praise was towards the presentation.

  • @alfie8878
    @alfie88787 жыл бұрын

    A perfect world is impossible, but each individual should strive to make it better.

  • @abyssalzei552

    @abyssalzei552

    5 жыл бұрын

    cue Edgy teens

  • @jthb

    @jthb

    5 жыл бұрын

    That sounds horrible... Ethics and morals are trippy

  • @odinson4184

    @odinson4184

    5 жыл бұрын

    That sounds like what a dystopian government would say

  • @eganplaysMC

    @eganplaysMC

    5 жыл бұрын

    Why would I try to make a broken world better if I know it can't become any better.

  • @odinson4184

    @odinson4184

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@eganplaysMC woah edgelord warning

  • @andrewchapman2024
    @andrewchapman20242 жыл бұрын

    There is no such thing as perfect because if we ever reached perfection as a society, we would have no reason to move forward. We can always strive to do and be better and when a challenge presents itself, we face it together.

  • @grenouillesupreme

    @grenouillesupreme

    11 ай бұрын

    We have no reason to move forward because everything is already perfect so i don't see how it's a bad thing

  • @andrewchapman2024

    @andrewchapman2024

    11 ай бұрын

    @@grenouillesupreme in a spiritual sense, I agree.

  • @capitalistball2924

    @capitalistball2924

    10 ай бұрын

    @@grenouillesupreme Here we can see the ideal worker, someone who the ruling class loves to exploit.

  • @grenouillesupreme

    @grenouillesupreme

    10 ай бұрын

    @@capitalistball2924 since when did youtube added four numbers to our username ? Also, no i said i have no reason to move forward IF society was alredy perfect

  • @overwatchpronstars3277
    @overwatchpronstars32773 жыл бұрын

    *"Death solves all problems- no man, no problems"* -Anatoly Rybakov *"It's a funny world we live in"* -Joker

  • @sayaksen8296

    @sayaksen8296

    2 жыл бұрын

    "dystopia is when society"-funny socety man

  • @Punkini

    @Punkini

    2 жыл бұрын

    “I’m the joker baybee!” - the joker baybee

  • @zettovii1367

    @zettovii1367

    2 жыл бұрын

    Except death brings at least one new problem: the lack if life.. and anything related to living.

  • @overwatchpronstars3277

    @overwatchpronstars3277

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@zettovii1367 Life will continue on even with or without the human race

  • @zettovii1367

    @zettovii1367

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@overwatchpronstars3277 Yup, same for every single living being really.

  • @r34lest.rod05
    @r34lest.rod054 жыл бұрын

    The concept of a utopia is perfection, and everyone is happy. I remember reading The Giver in 7th grade and they thought they had a utopia but they actually had a dystopia. The concept of a dystopia is lots of flaws, and everyone is miserable. It all makes sense.

  • @fandogplays

    @fandogplays

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know im a year late but I have to say im reading the giver right now Edit: Just finished it

  • @alleviatedaubergine8130

    @alleviatedaubergine8130

    3 жыл бұрын

    Makes sense that it is a 7th grade text, given how useless and cynical it is.

  • @avocetque

    @avocetque

    2 жыл бұрын

    I just read the giver too, in 7th grade! It's an amazing book and written well.

  • @alleviatedaubergine8130

    @alleviatedaubergine8130

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@avocetque My 8th grade teacher made a point of how much he hated it, and I am inclined to agree with them. It paints a very basic “Individuality good, Collectivism bad” idea and I don’t necessarily agree with that.

  • @pyotrilyichtchaikovsky9507

    @pyotrilyichtchaikovsky9507

    2 жыл бұрын

    i havent read the giver but i have read "gathering blue" which is the next in the series i believe I too read it the first time in 6-7 grade but now reading this in high school again and i saw soo many things i missed out, criticisms as well as appreciation for the concepts

  • @parijat8166
    @parijat81664 жыл бұрын

    Things mentioned in the video that you may want to refer to after the video to expand your knowledge- ¬Utopia ¬Gulliver's Travels ¬The Time Machine ¬The Iron Heel ¬Brave New World ¬Animal Farm ¬1984 ¬We ¬Handmaid's Tale ¬It Can't Happen Here ¬V for Vendetta

  • @sophiabeebeeboo4579

    @sophiabeebeeboo4579

    4 жыл бұрын

    Parijat thank you, so much Little suggestion for you if you’ve never heard of it before, Inside is a really cool dystopian based game. Check it out.

  • @ChannelSwitcher

    @ChannelSwitcher

    4 жыл бұрын

    also other examples referenced in 4:53 are -Mr. Robot -Elysium -Snowpiercer -Hunger Games -Children of Men -The Road im not sure what the last one is

  • @mohamedalgamal7371

    @mohamedalgamal7371

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ChannelSwitcher it's Ex Machina 2014

  • @JoAnna-le2wr

    @JoAnna-le2wr

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hi, I am Aqua and I am writing a book about our utopia of a dystopia. I will love It if someone supports me.

  • @user-ce2vh9zv3d

    @user-ce2vh9zv3d

    4 жыл бұрын

    *Oui*

  • @AliceP.
    @AliceP.8 ай бұрын

    Just wow. I think this is officially my favorite TED-Ed video. Perfect in every single bit. Great summarizing, presentation, animation, references and that provocative thought at the end...

  • @user-qt9oh4qy5y
    @user-qt9oh4qy5y5 ай бұрын

    4:10 2001: a space odyssey 4:19 westworld(1973) 4:51 mr.robot 4:55 snowpiercer 4:57 the hunger games 4:59 children of men 5:03 the road(not sure) 5:04 ex machia 5:08 metroplis I dont know what a movie or tv show is at 4:23 4:26 4:29 4:53 if you know about these, pls leave a comment...I can't concentrate on anything because of these...

  • @orangejuliaa

    @orangejuliaa

    2 ай бұрын

    i think 4:29 is Blade Runner

  • @summerbunny612
    @summerbunny6127 жыл бұрын

    If history has taught us anything, it's that human pursuit of utopia will always lead to dystopia. Take life as it is, as change is a process.

  • @user-on6db4rf4s

    @user-on6db4rf4s

    7 жыл бұрын

    True

  • @Vivify5040

    @Vivify5040

    7 жыл бұрын

    Depends on the standard of eutopia ('eutopia' meaning 'good place' rather than "utopia" meaning 'no place') you're discussing. If eutopia in this context means nobody experiencing consistent starvation or other suffering, then really pis off with your contrived platitudes. If one way to the minimization of suffering didn't work, we can't just give up and say 'lol fuck all those unfortunates'. That's just an acceptance of the dystopia we already live in. Not that you mind necessarily. Maybe you benefit from it. If by eutopia you mean someplace perfect, where we go beyond the minimization of suffering, to the maximization of the total, distribution, and stability of the amount of autonomy for example, I still must make an objection, though less aggressively. You do not know for certain whether the pursuit of eutopia will always lead to dystopia. In all of our previous attempts, our technology has been sub-optimal; we would in the past have to make sacrifices which future technologies would alleviate the necessity for. The prospect of discouraging improvement just because you made mistakes in that past is so unbelievably silly; much more than I fear misguided eutopia-seekers, I fear misguided reactionaries stifling the benevolent use of new technology in the face of strong evidence of its safety.

  • @summerbunny612

    @summerbunny612

    7 жыл бұрын

    First of all, you've made an incorrect assumption about me benefiting from things being the way they are without knowing me--such personal presumptions are so typical of self-righteous commentators & so off the mark. I stand by what I said, perhaps you need to re-watch the video again as the conclusion leads one to critically evaluate the idea of a perfect society and what it takes to obtain/sustain it, then examine whether the practice justifies/nullifies the theory.

  • @SLACKLINEDUDE

    @SLACKLINEDUDE

    6 жыл бұрын

    nonetheless... AMERICA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN!!

  • @montimuros2837

    @montimuros2837

    5 жыл бұрын

    The liberal pursuit of utopia during the XVIII century brought you the freedom to say that, to speak your mind freely. The socialist pursuit of utopia during the XX century brought you the welfare and literacy that allow you to write your opinion on a mobile phone. Don't give up on revolution just because it isn't perfect. After all, no combat plan survives contact with the enemy.

  • @alexanderveritas
    @alexanderveritas4 жыл бұрын

    *Long story short: **_There won’t and never will be a perfect world, because there can’t be one._* *_Just like there can’t and never will be perfect humans._* *_Because the world is shaped by humanity, and humanity is shaped by the same world they live in._*

  • @melchid8448

    @melchid8448

    4 жыл бұрын

    But there will be a world that is best for us.Maybe not an Utopia but an Utopia Modified.Its aim would be ensuring that humans live in any way they want but also respecting other peoples liberties too.

  • @mhyvegelbolingo746

    @mhyvegelbolingo746

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ngl i read the first comment in Morgan freeman's voice

  • @melchid8448

    @melchid8448

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mhyvegelbolingo746 I take it as a compliment so thank you.

  • @norton_antivirus

    @norton_antivirus

    4 жыл бұрын

    There can be a perfect world until humans implement things that solve what they want, greed, the apple of knowledge, power, a faster way of killing anything, every sin you can think of has made this world we live in, and there is nothing wrong with sin, sin is just a word to make people feel bad, dont be a snowflake or a door to door bible preacher

  • @freeunderratedmusic4273

    @freeunderratedmusic4273

    4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe an utopia is a world without total happiness? Ever thought of that? Being happy most of the time makes up for an utopia.

  • @aspektx
    @aspektx2 жыл бұрын

    There is a fundamental difference between improving the human condition and believing you can gain eternal perfection. The impossibility of eternal perfection is often used by those in power to keep the underclass from attempting to make real, possible improvements to their lives.

  • @theyearwas1473
    @theyearwas14737 ай бұрын

    I'll save you the watch "Just wake up".

  • @ForageGardener
    @ForageGardener3 жыл бұрын

    Alright everyone. Thats enough sedition, back to obedience for all of you.

  • @ironcheater1012

    @ironcheater1012

    3 жыл бұрын

    im gonna steal this joke later on. thats how funny i found it

  • @ironsharpensiron4580

    @ironsharpensiron4580

    3 жыл бұрын

    💯 Facts

  • @ForageGardener

    @ForageGardener

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ironcheater1012 Its my pleasure :)

  • @TheRealJahmyaa

    @TheRealJahmyaa

    3 жыл бұрын

    What are 3 events/changes throughout the 20th-century that inspired dystopian fiction?

  • @ForageGardener

    @ForageGardener

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheRealJahmyaa Monday, Tuesday, Wednsday

  • @Ciscogrande
    @Ciscogrande7 жыл бұрын

    "Island of (la puta)" . Laughs in Spanish

  • @misterosc

    @misterosc

    7 жыл бұрын

    yup 😂 😂

  • @rustanlagrimas563

    @rustanlagrimas563

    7 жыл бұрын

    PIJUS MAGNIFICUS and in tagalog

  • @TLorman-io8wm

    @TLorman-io8wm

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jajajajaja

  • @jaguarjack4366

    @jaguarjack4366

    7 жыл бұрын

    PIJUS MAGNIFICUS hahahaha lol thats a swear word in phillipines

  • @charlielxix9769

    @charlielxix9769

    7 жыл бұрын

    como lo zupo :'v

  • @sepehr20626
    @sepehr206268 ай бұрын

    One of the most fascinating, eye-opening, and terrifyingly accurate Ted Ed videos. Kudos to Ted Ed for putting out all the great educational videos they put out. This one is one of their best videos 👏🏽👏🏽

  • @analeticiasantiagodonascim469
    @analeticiasantiagodonascim4692 жыл бұрын

    "Better never means better for everyone. It's always worse for someone" - The Handmaid's Tale

  • @renanmcardoso
    @renanmcardoso3 жыл бұрын

    I love dystopia in books, movies, etc to show me how bad things can get and learn how to survive in each scenario... but it quite frightening every time each of those start getting close to reality (just watch news and you'll see symptoms on our everyday lives 🥺)

  • @kimmycassie

    @kimmycassie

    2 жыл бұрын

    It also makes you think which of those dystopia stories will come true in the future,, I always wonder if any of it will happen irl considering some are really realistic

  • @kokocherrycola6310

    @kokocherrycola6310

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some people can channel with it and write about it because it’s another reality that exists and can come real any moment.

  • @TheFamousMockingbird

    @TheFamousMockingbird

    11 ай бұрын

    it is because the books act as a guide.

  • @chiragchhabria3272

    @chiragchhabria3272

    11 ай бұрын

    Forming opinions about the world by looking at the media is like forming opinions about me by looking at my feet - Hans rosling, factfulness

  • @annalisavajda252

    @annalisavajda252

    10 ай бұрын

    In fiction people survive not true of reality though even if you endure it years it wears you down eventually.

  • @Some_Guy77
    @Some_Guy776 жыл бұрын

    How to know you are in a dystopia: Step 1: realize you are alive Step 2: there is no step 2

  • @epicgamer9643

    @epicgamer9643

    4 жыл бұрын

    deep

  • @scash285

    @scash285

    4 жыл бұрын

    Doomer

  • @josephsvennson5694

    @josephsvennson5694

    4 жыл бұрын

    Shane Cash Okay, monomer.

  • @dontlookatmyvideoREE

    @dontlookatmyvideoREE

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Daniella Nanjari nah that's a doomer, many zoomers like me isn't a doomer

  • @dontlookatmyvideoREE

    @dontlookatmyvideoREE

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Daniella Nanjari Well, for now atleast.

  • @comprehendeth92
    @comprehendeth928 ай бұрын

    "How to recognize a dystopia" - look outside.

  • @kimmycassie
    @kimmycassie2 жыл бұрын

    I really like the dystopia genre. I know a few movies from the west, but I'm more familiar with anime in that genre. The medium is able to easily create the stories since it doesn't require irl actors/scenes.

  • @appachuru
    @appachuru4 жыл бұрын

    “and today’s dystopian fiction continues to reflect on modern anxieties about: inequality, climate change, government power and global epidemics” ahhh that didn’t age well

  • @bellac6311

    @bellac6311

    4 жыл бұрын

    LoVe TriAngLeS

  • @appachuru

    @appachuru

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bella Crafts ?

  • @bellac6311

    @bellac6311

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@appachuru Most of todays dystopian fiction focusses on the young quirky teen with her two love interest and they overthrow the government because why not.

  • @appachuru

    @appachuru

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bellac6311 i literally just quoted the video what-

  • @bellac6311

    @bellac6311

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@appachuru I must have misread. I thought you were saying that the dystopian genre didnt age well, somi made a joke about why. You seem very confused, so i think i read your first commetn wrong. Sorry 😂😂

  • @TheIcecoldorange
    @TheIcecoldorange4 жыл бұрын

    when you realize everyone is starting to think the same, look the same, dress the same... something's really wrong

  • @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122

    @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122

    4 жыл бұрын

    its a prison.

  • @Phychologik

    @Phychologik

    4 жыл бұрын

    Isn’t this just primary school?

  • @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122

    @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Phychologik Well it's depend on what school you studied. In Vietnam, we wear uniform from primary to high school.

  • @omninulluser343

    @omninulluser343

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 *Concentration or Labor Camp

  • @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122

    @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@omninulluser343 both

  • @scarletteenager
    @scarletteenager2 жыл бұрын

    one of the best ted ed videos hands down. I love re-watching it

  • @divankarsingh
    @divankarsingh2 жыл бұрын

    The narrator's voice is enchanting and the animation sublime. 💫

  • @DustinRodriguez1_0
    @DustinRodriguez1_07 жыл бұрын

    Sinclair Lewis' book 'It Can't Happen Here' is really great, and I think many more people should be reading it now.

  • @Grizabeebles

    @Grizabeebles

    7 жыл бұрын

    Especially considering that it just HAPPENED...

  • @Grizabeebles

    @Grizabeebles

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** - my take is that we are at a stage where our prefrontal cortex and "logic" is directly at odds with our emotional drives. simple observation has shown us that nearly all humans are fundamentally *not* objective beings and now that we have the looming capacity to destroy our entire species (nuclear war, global warming,etc.) can we really afford to *stay* that way? It's really rather horrifying to think that "rational thought" is something that is still up for grabs in human evolution. But there it is.

  • @Grizabeebles

    @Grizabeebles

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** - My position is a little more nuanced than you give me credit for. Humans need some method of self-organization to function as a group. Whether you see the base unit as "the family" or "the tribe", we *always* have. Removing the state creates a power vacuum - which leads to Anarchy - which leads back to Despotism anyway. Like it or not "the State" is the only safeguard we have *against* tyranny. Humanity is just looking for what comes *after* Representative Democracy the same way Representative Democracy came after Monarchy in Europe following the First World War. Government is not properly adapting to new technology and competing moral values so society is increasingly divided between old (xenophobic) and new (globalized) values. The rise of populist leaders, neoconservatives and isolationist governments are all backlash against social changes started in the 90s. (Meanwhile the very idea of saying "we've gone too far" and locking ourselves in an idealized past makes me sick to my stomach) Meanwhile our so-called "representatives" are mired in petty party politics and self-interest. "Moderate" voices are disappearing. Battle lines are being drawn over social (aka. "moral") values. In previous centuries all leaders have governed based on their *beliefs* about the world and society rather than tailor their beliefs to fit what may or may not be "objectively" true. Many recent leaders have acted like science is an *opinion*. It's not. What you and everyone else needs to see is that the scientific method is just a mental tool the same way multiplication is a mental tool. It has no intrinsic moral position or social agenda. It's just the process of describing "what is". And the people who hate math are now in charge of the U.S. and the U.K. for the next 4 years. We are headed for the kinds of social changes that used to happen every millennia but now happen every century or so. There is no easy fix. The "better" values don't always win or the Islamic Golden Age wouldn't have been followed centuries later by ISIS. But now we all have to take sides about what kind of world we want to live in. Because in politics silence is consent.

  • @Grizabeebles

    @Grizabeebles

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** - To answer your comments in order - we need the state to protect us because if we all just look out for ourselves, what happens when the guy next door decides to kick ours down and take our stuff because he is bigger, stronger and has fewer scruples about rape and murder? Alternatively, what happens if a small group of people decide to start murdering everyone who doesn't immediately do what they say? The only solution is an entity big enough and powerful enough to protect all its members from all internal and external threats. A state. *WE* are the state. Governments are meant to create and enforce a set of rules that *everybody* agrees to live by and punishes (or exiles) those who break the rules. Typically these rules are meant to maximize things like individual happiness, social cohesion, or collective defense but there's no reason a state can't decide "all members must wear green because green is the best color." Nature may not require a state but *humans* do. If you do a google search for "successful anarchist societies" the only results that come up only ever lasted for a few years or have never had an external threat to defend against. The only thing that can fight a war as well as a state is another state. And if you can tell me how we are going to abolish war without a global state, I'm all ears. "Social Physics" does not (and can not) exist as a fully-realized scientific discipline. I have some hope for behavioural economics, but if you've ever real the "Foundation" books by Isaac Asimov, he lays out one of fallacies of attempting to statistically analyze and predict human behaviour: It is rendered completely non-functional if everyday people are aware of patterns in their own behaviour. Then, they can consciously choose to reject those patterns at will, rendering the predictive ability of such a "crystal ball" pointless. After that, there's the added problem that if one intended to "scientifically" maximize the good of the group along one metric, then he or she is potentially *deliberately harming* social outliers and minorities, limiting individual choice and curtailing self-expression. Not to mention the ever-present fact that people are fallible and the whole enterprise could be based on false assumptions and general incompetence. No, a "scientifically designed" society is no more likely to be successful than any other existing state or historical model. Incidentally, the last place anyone tried *tried* to implement a top-down reform of society based on some concept of "Social Physics" (aka. Stalinism and Maoism) was Cambodia in 1975. Go look up how well *that* went.

  • @Grizabeebles

    @Grizabeebles

    7 жыл бұрын

    *"Human evolution commences"* - you do know how evolution works right? "Survival of the fittest" means lots and lots of dead people. Are you really okay with that? *"No other thing can offer human evolution into a more advanced race, than liberty"* - I'm partial rational discourse and self-abnegation myself. *"Without a state, no crime will occur"* - give me three honest-to-god historical examples. I *DARE* you. *"Social physics is a society run only on evidence."* - I think the phrase you're looking for is "evidence-based policy". That's already a thing, and I agree that it should be mandatory where possible. Thank you for starting this exchange and I hope the enlightenment has been flowing both ways. I just can't see a way past the need for some form of state and you have an almost religious devotion to the idea that statelessness is a panacea. The truth (as always) probably lies somewhere in the middle. Good night, and whether or not you see fit to continue this tomorrow, I enjoyed it.

  • @gr8gracie858
    @gr8gracie8584 жыл бұрын

    2:10 As thought-provoking and deep as this video is, I still am unable to get over the fact that they share a single leg and foot between the four of them.

  • @evsaintuya

    @evsaintuya

    Жыл бұрын

    bro made me crack up in a dead serious video

  • @hellomitchell
    @hellomitchell2 жыл бұрын

    this video and the little animations are so amazing, props to you guys holy zamn!

  • @carbonmolecules4504
    @carbonmolecules45042 жыл бұрын

    I think that a really cool example of the duality of dystopia and utopia is the video game We Happy Few. It puts the player in the shoes of someone who lives in a world we’re people are forced to take drugs that make them see the world like everything is great. If you’re not on the drug though you see the horrors of the world. It’s a really interesting interpretation.

  • @damnfreakingsien
    @damnfreakingsien6 жыл бұрын

    The ending is sooo damn good. A perfect world in one's eyes could be misery in others.

  • @MisterVercetti
    @MisterVercetti5 жыл бұрын

    The idea of Utopia is flawed in its very concept. To wit: 1. In a Utopian society, everyone is happy because all conflict has been eliminated. 2. To eliminate conflict, one must root out its primary source: human individuality 3. In eradicating human individuality, one effectively destroys the very spirit of humanity. 4. When the human spirit has been destroyed, happiness is unattainable. This is essentially why every society that has attempted to establish the ideal Utopia (the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, East Germany, Maoist China) has ended up a totalitarian nightmare. Conflict is the price we pay for allowing every individual to express him or herself. That price is acceptable when compared to the alternatives.

  • @zf8604

    @zf8604

    5 жыл бұрын

    MisterVercetti yes ,but if some right the fights we when will be minor and personal like a bar fight for example. If it wasn’t for corruption on the enormous power of money a lot of wars would not be happening right now including famines, diseases, etc.

  • @jamie-rs1ne

    @jamie-rs1ne

    5 жыл бұрын

    this hit me *_hard_*

  • @moorland6735

    @moorland6735

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think you need to clarify the second point where you say, no conflict = no individuality.

  • @xetaxetaxeta

    @xetaxetaxeta

    5 жыл бұрын

    AHAHAHAHAH, are you just attacking communism

  • @lolbro8701

    @lolbro8701

    5 жыл бұрын

    A semi-utopia is the best we can hope for

  • @lisaanimi
    @lisaanimi2 жыл бұрын

    That ending just crushed "Imagine"

  • @_xxpegasusxx_7204
    @_xxpegasusxx_72042 жыл бұрын

    1:22 the Houyhnhnm reminded me of Griffith from Miura Kentaro's manga "Berserk", one of the best fictional antagonists ever!

  • @tonystonem9614

    @tonystonem9614

    3 ай бұрын

    Ew

  • @tomomasaaoki2220
    @tomomasaaoki22203 жыл бұрын

    2020 Ted ed: "A global epidemic" Hmm... that sounds familiar.

  • @rahmahassaf2275

    @rahmahassaf2275

    3 жыл бұрын

    OOF, this hit for some reason

  • @sparklypri

    @sparklypri

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rahmahassaf2275 the train (edit: reason**) being a global ongoing pandemic for more than a year and half 😀

  • @rahmahassaf2275

    @rahmahassaf2275

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sparklypri for some reason, I almost had a stroke reading that. And yeah ):

  • @lestato
    @lestato4 жыл бұрын

    Brave New World is such as good book, I would recommend it to everyone. This dystopia / utopia resembles our current society closer than 1984 does.

  • @user-fp2mn5gw9i

    @user-fp2mn5gw9i

    2 жыл бұрын

    And a better instruction manual for politicians. The computer I am typing on is more of a soma than a telescreen.

  • @MrrDecembrist

    @MrrDecembrist

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’d say that depends on a country we are talking about

  • @suzanadee8252

    @suzanadee8252

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is a great book. Are we there yet? Oh yes we are.

  • @boopyy

    @boopyy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Honestly, it really depends on whether you’re reading it by choice or not. I read it for High School, and it was awful. I genuinely hated it.

  • @nicolecarnevale1071

    @nicolecarnevale1071

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’d read the book but the nanotechnology in my brain is commanding me not to.

  • @drillerfromdeeprockgalacti1434
    @drillerfromdeeprockgalacti14343 жыл бұрын

    "How to recognise a dystopia" *looks outside*

  • @tharunkrishnan6626
    @tharunkrishnan66262 жыл бұрын

    5:14 that graphical is thought provoking

  • @SuperJ311y
    @SuperJ311y7 жыл бұрын

    Omg the moment I saw "dystopia" you are a god I have an english exam tomorrow and guess what the theme for one of the essays :O DYSTOPIA

  • @BreezyInterwebs

    @BreezyInterwebs

    7 жыл бұрын

    Adorkable Congratulations, you are slightly less screwed tomorrow!

  • @Inkulabi

    @Inkulabi

    7 жыл бұрын

    Adorkable we read 1984 by George Orwell for ours ....common thing about Orwell and Huxley they wrote dystopian novels and were in the Fabian society......like Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn.

  • @sphericalcow2762
    @sphericalcow27624 жыл бұрын

    At its heart, the achievement of utopia itself reflects a dystopian world.

  • @pankhuribhatnagar2360

    @pankhuribhatnagar2360

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not really. Look at Bhutan, people are free, happy and at peace.

  • @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122

    @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@pankhuribhatnagar2360 sounds BS

  • @pankhuribhatnagar2360

    @pankhuribhatnagar2360

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 have you ever been to bhutan? Or know anything about the country?

  • @bonelessshark7434

    @bonelessshark7434

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pankhuri Bhatnagar Human nature restricts utopia

  • @zyanego3170

    @zyanego3170

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pankhuribhatnagar2360 Basically the Switzerland of Asia

  • @mrnobodytheuser2950
    @mrnobodytheuser29508 ай бұрын

    I recognise a Dystopia by looking out the window.

  • @chongxina8288
    @chongxina82887 ай бұрын

    I didn’t expect much but this was brilliant. People really need to pay attention to the end because that’s exactly where we are right now.

  • @BanaMUA
    @BanaMUA7 жыл бұрын

    Loved this! Perfectly timed with all the mess in the world right now

  • @dinothunder629

    @dinothunder629

    7 жыл бұрын

    independent thinker716 everything has a price. some of the destabilization of those regions are caused by our greed

  • @TheThreatenedSwan

    @TheThreatenedSwan

    7 жыл бұрын

    BanaMUA Yeah, most of the world's countries are socialist hell holes

  • @EmperorZelos

    @EmperorZelos

    7 жыл бұрын

    Trump especially!

  • @EmperorZelos

    @EmperorZelos

    7 жыл бұрын

    Independent thinker, NAtionalism is causing problems, USA is a shining example of it.

  • @EmperorZelos

    @EmperorZelos

    7 жыл бұрын

    You might want to look at the socialist "hell-holes" of scandinavia........less dysfunction than USA and most countries, less crimes, less teenage pregnancies and so on. Over all measures of societal health they are doing better than USA and all those "conservative" countries. I wonder why.

  • @CarlosGordo97
    @CarlosGordo977 жыл бұрын

    "the future is bright!" - black mirror

  • @Gooberpatrol66

    @Gooberpatrol66

    7 жыл бұрын

    "The future is so bright I don't need eyes to see it." -Ron Paul

  • @Artechiza

    @Artechiza

    7 жыл бұрын

    Carlos I love Black Mirror!

  • @devina8812

    @devina8812

    5 жыл бұрын

    Which episode

  • @rickswineberg
    @rickswineberg7 ай бұрын

    Just take a look around, we are on a sure course for it.

  • @vale.antoni
    @vale.antoni2 жыл бұрын

    At ethics class, after reading 1984 (The others that is, I already had read it at that point, so I was assigned Brave new world) we were asked to pain a picture of our supposed "Perfect World". I was the only who couldn't come up with one, so I instead explained how such is impossible. TL;DR: Most people's "Perfect World" has 2+1 main traits: Everyone is happy, Everyone is equal, and have it implied that it doesn't fall apart by next Thursday. 1984 elaborates taking away "Everyone is happy", Brave new world elaborates taking away "Everyone is equal". Taking away the third option doesn't make for a thrilling story, so that book doesn't exist.

  • @itecnus3490
    @itecnus34907 жыл бұрын

    A perfect world is one without humanity

  • @happydays6777

    @happydays6777

    7 жыл бұрын

    iTeCnus edgy

  • @itecnus3490

    @itecnus3490

    7 жыл бұрын

    Gotta stay sharp these days.

  • @khorps4756

    @khorps4756

    7 жыл бұрын

    that's pretty edgy

  • @kattenelvis1778

    @kattenelvis1778

    7 жыл бұрын

    No, no it wouldn't

  • @HeatherBillingsWall

    @HeatherBillingsWall

    7 жыл бұрын

    iTeCnus this is truth. life cannot exist at all for peace to reign. it's not possible bc not everyone has the same idea of what peace is.

  • @ks_ig2728
    @ks_ig27287 жыл бұрын

    "We become what we behold, we shape our tools and our tools shape us." - Marshall Mcluhan

  • @michaelalmos4078

    @michaelalmos4078

    7 жыл бұрын

    churchill

  • @l0l1p0p7
    @l0l1p0p76 ай бұрын

    5:13 this is one of the best ways I've seen someone describe the Utopia/Dystopia problem. Well done TED ED

  • @j.d.c.777
    @j.d.c.7778 ай бұрын

    We live in a dystopia.

  • @cicadamp3152
    @cicadamp31523 жыл бұрын

    Title: *"How to Recognize a Dystopia"* **goes on google and looks at all the news** Yeah. I'm pretty sure I can easily recognize a dystopian society.

  • @eccremocarpusscaber5159

    @eccremocarpusscaber5159

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, if that’s what you thought, give it another few months and pop back to give me an update. Hmm

  • @markcreek1280

    @markcreek1280

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Bruhmoment-tk4hm looks like Biden is giving Americans a plan for COVID wonder why.

  • @markcreek1280

    @markcreek1280

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Bruhmoment-tk4hm then that means you didn’t look on his webpage to see what he was talking about. Stop repeating the media and do research.

  • @markcreek1280

    @markcreek1280

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Bruhmoment-tk4hm did you look at his web page, it seems like a better plan to me.

  • @luckyblockyoshi

    @luckyblockyoshi

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, this is totally definitely the worst time to be alive... totally... the world is the worst it has ever been...

  • @brianrusher3617
    @brianrusher36173 жыл бұрын

    The problem with dystopia is that it tends to be reductionist and lead to hopeless thinking. A true Kalostopia would have to be composed of individuals who actually wanted to be there because of agreed upon ideals and a better way of life for everyone. No one there could be forced to think or act a certain way or forced to stay there. The worst thing society can do is give up hope that such a place can exist.

  • @Super-BallSharp

    @Super-BallSharp

    8 ай бұрын

    THANKYOU.

  • @kialuvsyoo

    @kialuvsyoo

    8 ай бұрын

    Tbh, this sounds exactly like the shrunken-people town in that movie Downsizing!

  • @dirksimmang

    @dirksimmang

    3 ай бұрын

    What if We have been fooled into thinking and believing. We get to a place Where we are feeling good and happy about everything ... Not knowing That we have been Beguiled....😮

  • @CoolDudeClem
    @CoolDudeClem2 жыл бұрын

    I don't need to imagine a dystopia, too see one all I have to do is look out of the window.

  • @fluffyhamsta
    @fluffyhamsta10 ай бұрын

    A friendly comment: Hello, I want to ensure that I got this video's pop culture references right. 4:12 "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still". 4:18 "Westworld (1973)". 4:23 "Rollerball (1975)". 4:29 "Blade Runner (1982)". 4:34 "Dr. Strangelove". (Obviously stated in the video.) 4:39 "Watchmen". (Also obviously stated in the video.) 4:42 "V for Vendetta". (Ditto.) 4:44 "The Handmaid's Tale". (Ditto.) 4:53 "Mr. Robot" and "Elysium". 4:56 "Snowpiercer" and "The Hunger Games". 5:05 "Ex Machina". 5:08 - 5:12 "Metropolis". What am I missing? I do not know the pop culture references from 5:00 to 5:04? I hope this helped those who were curious. Thank you and have a nice day.

  • @insertusername7342
    @insertusername73427 жыл бұрын

    For me:- Society is like a puzzle Unwanted: - Through education and media, we are all molded into pieces Can you spot the pattern? - Some don`t fit or don`t want to Knowledge: - seeking solace in works and worlds of fiction, in books, games, movies, drugs ect... Sacrifice: Those pieces don`t develop a proper form Obey: - thus they cannot fit with the pieces around them Cage: - But the puzzle is all, there is no other reality or escape Isolation: - These pieces just lies on the top of the picture, cluttering it Extra: - They are unwanted, unecessary and annoying to the rest Test: - Find your shape Your life: - The end

  • @MrZyroid

    @MrZyroid

    7 жыл бұрын

    That took me a while to catch on.

  • @charterhold1469

    @charterhold1469

    7 жыл бұрын

    InsertUsername I dont get it 😌

  • @WhimsyHeath

    @WhimsyHeath

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's basically an acrostic poem.

  • @MrZyroid

    @MrZyroid

    7 жыл бұрын

    Read the first letter of every line

  • @nakenmil

    @nakenmil

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ow the Edge.

  • @emilyle1509
    @emilyle15097 жыл бұрын

    Sooooo.... what's zootopia

  • @agrippa.the.cosmonaut-wiz

    @agrippa.the.cosmonaut-wiz

    7 жыл бұрын

    (NO ZOO)- probably not though- my latin is way to rusty for this...

  • @happyswedme

    @happyswedme

    7 жыл бұрын

    I think topia means place and zoo means animal soooo animalplace?

  • @tifforo1

    @tifforo1

    7 жыл бұрын

    Emily Le A story about a police officer and a hustler who stop a plot to stir up crazy amounts of racism with a fake epidemic?

  • @stephanievaughn2768

    @stephanievaughn2768

    7 жыл бұрын

    Zootopia's a dystopia disguised as a utopia. Say that five times fast.

  • @davidb5205

    @davidb5205

    7 жыл бұрын

    A Furry dystopia.

  • @qwertyuiop-cu2ve
    @qwertyuiop-cu2ve2 жыл бұрын

    Forget utopia, just do your best to not actively make the world a worse place.

  • @rajain9718
    @rajain97182 жыл бұрын

    The video is excellent, and the narrator's gift of the gab adds lustre to it.

  • @ClosetDemon
    @ClosetDemon4 жыл бұрын

    i love making dystopian short stories and am currently building up a universe that will hopefully span a series, a novel, and all the short stories i've already made. this gave me a lot of inspiration, thank you

  • @anushshah21

    @anushshah21

    3 жыл бұрын

    Where are you now with novel and all?

  • @thinginground5179

    @thinginground5179

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@anushshah21 idk but its real now

  • @simply_nebulous

    @simply_nebulous

    2 жыл бұрын

    What do you post your work on?

  • @soslothful

    @soslothful

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do these stories involve food service work?

  • @missingx1

    @missingx1

    Жыл бұрын

    update

  • @yourneighbour5738
    @yourneighbour57384 жыл бұрын

    China sees 1984 "Is this an instructional manual?"

  • @mayaa3377

    @mayaa3377

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your Neighbour 🤣

  • @DeedoDoop

    @DeedoDoop

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your Neighbour lmao

  • @meahoola

    @meahoola

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey, you just wrote the script for a new Star Trek episode.

  • @poweroffriendship2.0

    @poweroffriendship2.0

    3 жыл бұрын

    ALWAYS HAS BEEN

  • @koalaby1014

    @koalaby1014

    3 жыл бұрын

    @你好- CHINESE ALERT, CHINESE ALERT

  • @KimmyQueen
    @KimmyQueen7 ай бұрын

    I didn't put it together that Hayao Miyazaki was using "Gulliver's Travels" as inspiration for "Castle in The Sky"

  • @richardscathouse

    @richardscathouse

    7 ай бұрын

    Schools never teach the classics anymore. I had to self teach my own liberal arts education after quitting college. It just wasn't there. But I found an old curriculum from the 1880s and followed that. 😮

  • @johnalexir7634
    @johnalexir76348 ай бұрын

    To recognized a dystopia, just look at the topics you're not allowed to discuss openly without censure, unless you fall in line with the approved narratives. Hey, that's our world today, well on its way to somewhere not at all good.

  • @Tlactl
    @Tlactl7 жыл бұрын

    so Futurama actually takes place in a well disguised dystopia

  • @Marylandbrony

    @Marylandbrony

    7 жыл бұрын

    Futurama is actually seems to be a Utopia but it's resident's are dystopic.

  • @perpetualpolymath5961

    @perpetualpolymath5961

    7 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was a dystopia where on the surface where the normal strong people while below that guise where the ugly truth.For example on earth mutants are forced underground just because they don't ft into society.

  • @ValterStrangelove4419

    @ValterStrangelove4419

    7 жыл бұрын

    Futurama is actually an entirely different trope altogether, it's a crapsack world. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsackWorld

  • @ValterStrangelove4419

    @ValterStrangelove4419

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Mo Killem And that would be a crapsaccharine world. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsaccharineWorld

  • @Marylandbrony

    @Marylandbrony

    7 жыл бұрын

    Valter Sarajevo Excacty.

  • @JordanBeagle
    @JordanBeagle3 жыл бұрын

    Utopia itself being "no place" makes sense, they knew from the beginning it could be nothing more than a thought experiment, every attempt at utopia fails and becomes a dystopia. The perfect is the enemy of the good.

  • @vatsalgupta6550
    @vatsalgupta655010 ай бұрын

    I don't know why but the 5 layered diagram he showed at the end which elite at the top, and slaves at bottom, seemed like the Varna system, which always take shape naturally in established societies

  • @MichaelGeoghegan
    @MichaelGeoghegan7 ай бұрын

    We are obviously living in one right now

  • @MaxRamos8
    @MaxRamos87 жыл бұрын

    How did you not mention Fahrenheit 451!?

  • @DustinRodriguez1_0

    @DustinRodriguez1_0

    7 жыл бұрын

    That one is a sensitive subject since it seems now like a really quite mild description of reality. Who would have guessed that so many people would have simply taken it up voluntarily?

  • @brooklego2367

    @brooklego2367

    7 жыл бұрын

    i'm actually reading that book right now!

  • @brooklego2367

    @brooklego2367

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** actually, i'm in 8th grade reading it XD

  • @hollyrobinson1471

    @hollyrobinson1471

    6 жыл бұрын

    Read that in rehab. Super powerful and beautiful

  • @lnathang5900
    @lnathang59006 жыл бұрын

    The best way to get the masses to do what you want them to is to make them think they want to do it. This is how you obtain power with little resistance. Another method is to divide people into opposing factions, so they will be too focused on this division to come together and make a change. 👌

  • @rei_cirith

    @rei_cirith

    4 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations! You just described US politics!

  • @8Hshan

    @8Hshan

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@rei_cirith Remove "US" and the statement still holds true.

  • @noahbayard6190

    @noahbayard6190

    4 жыл бұрын

    This sounds a whole lot like the societies described in _1984_ and _Divergent_ . They are dystopias though

  • @norton_antivirus

    @norton_antivirus

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the help in creating a country

  • @norton_antivirus

    @norton_antivirus

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@8Hshan there is no US

  • @dinkmartini3236
    @dinkmartini32368 ай бұрын

    "How to recognize a dystopia:" --Look around.

  • @hafplace1346
    @hafplace13467 ай бұрын

    we don't need a video to tell us how to recognise a dystopia, we need one to tell us how to fix it, i look around me - conclusion: dystopian

  • @richardscathouse

    @richardscathouse

    7 ай бұрын

    At this point I suggest a Mini-Nova 😢

  • @galaxymew5138
    @galaxymew51384 жыл бұрын

    I'm on a TedEd binge, who's with me?

  • @almadelatierra5153

    @almadelatierra5153

    4 жыл бұрын

    Galaxy Mew YAS MAAM

  • @kyutelav8610

    @kyutelav8610

    4 жыл бұрын

    lmao me

  • @stickypoopoo8982

    @stickypoopoo8982

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nah im watching this for class lol

  • @miiniimiiniijpeg

    @miiniimiiniijpeg

    4 жыл бұрын

    Galaxy Mew Yesss

  • @yourladbrennen3130

    @yourladbrennen3130

    4 жыл бұрын

    meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  • @JohnCasteel1333
    @JohnCasteel13333 жыл бұрын

    Everyone watching already lives in a dystopia

  • @cockycookie1

    @cockycookie1

    3 жыл бұрын

    No. We live in a flawed society but it's the best it's ever been and there's still room for improvement

  • @JohnCasteel1333

    @JohnCasteel1333

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cockycookie1 every society days they are the best society ever. Not original at all.

  • @JohnCasteel1333

    @JohnCasteel1333

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tt-qq4xq good one

  • @miguelbaltazar7606

    @miguelbaltazar7606

    2 жыл бұрын

    no they dont for it to become a dystopia, there has to be a floating pyramid and someone has to own a spaceship and dont forget the scanning drones

  • @EtreTocsin

    @EtreTocsin

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@miguelbaltazar7606 😂Dang dude, nailed it. 🔨

  • @dennishrmn1
    @dennishrmn12 жыл бұрын

    The illustrations in this video are so great!!!

  • @antaed27
    @antaed277 жыл бұрын

    4:18-5:12 movie/TV show references in order: Westworld, Rollerball, Total Recall, Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove, Watchmen, V For Vendetta, The Handmaid's Tale, Mr. Robot, Elysium, Snowpiercer, The Hunger Games, Children Of Men, The Road, Ex Machina, Metropolis

  • @suryakantchavan3565

    @suryakantchavan3565

    6 жыл бұрын

    antaed thanks, I'm going check out all of these

  • @aleks_web5223

    @aleks_web5223

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I was looking for this

  • @seyma_y

    @seyma_y

    2 жыл бұрын

    thank u

  • @felixthelemon978
    @felixthelemon9786 жыл бұрын

    I imagined a world where I could sit in math without half the class either screaming at eachother or shouting memes, but the ending made me understand that it was just a dream.

  • @gharfeeld

    @gharfeeld

    4 жыл бұрын

    ok boomer.

  • @marcar9marcar972

    @marcar9marcar972

    4 жыл бұрын

    Felix The Lemon don’t worry, give it couple years and it will happen

  • @marcar9marcar972

    @marcar9marcar972

    4 жыл бұрын

    FnafCinema dude how can he be a boomer if he’s young enough to be in school? Don’t be rude

  • @gharfeeld

    @gharfeeld

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@marcar9marcar972 r/wooosh

  • @abelg9053

    @abelg9053

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gharfeeld ok redditor

  • @iris_drawssandwiches
    @iris_drawssandwiches9 ай бұрын

    Today I found out some parts of my Minecraft are dystopias!

  • @Jadeserphant
    @Jadeserphant2 жыл бұрын

    The questions at the end are profound, and wise with it.

  • @MephLeo
    @MephLeo7 жыл бұрын

    5:31 That. It is incredibly summarizing.