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    This is the worst Venn diagram I’ve ever read and even if it wasn’t the point would still suck.

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    This chart really makes no sense at all. How does Lord of the Flies lie at the intersection of The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451?

    One’s about an ultra-conservative theocracy, one’s about government surveillance and propaganda, and one’s about destroying books because people’s attention spans have reduced past the ability to read and they’re too long/confusing/depressing. I guess authoritarianism might lie at the heart of all these? Meanwhile, though, Lord of the Flies is more about the dangers of unchecked groupthink and how it can lead to violence and cruelty.

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    Venn diagrams representing more than 3 sets don’t work if you keep using 2d circles to represent all the sets. For example, in this diagram there’s no intersection of ºF451 with and only with BNW, or 1984 with and only with AHT.

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        Those are ellipses, not circles. So what I said is still the truth.

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          I get that the picture is more art than an actual representation of anything. With that said even as art The Matrix in my opinion doesn’t really fit there. Like it’s entirely within the bounds of The Handmaid’s Tale so keeping with the Ven Diagram aesthetic with artistic license it means that The Matrix is most like The Handmaid’s tale, which isn’t not. The Handmaid’s Tale is a feminist story about the domination of women in society, The Matrix is a philosophical exploration of the questions what is real and do we have free choice.

          Maybe the argument could be made they’re both about choice but that feels hollow. Maybe put The Hunger Games there I’m definitely over thinking this.

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    People who think we live in the worst possible timeline ever instead of just a subpar timeline that could be better be like:

    No your comment being deleted for violating the sub’s rules is not “literally 1984”, you hyperbolic fuck

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      Hot take:

      With genocide and eugenics on the rise again in the real world, maybe we shouldn’t be celebrating a movie whose entire premise is eugenics.

      “Here’s what horrible things could happen if we continue to let the wrong people breed while the right kind of people breed to little!”

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    Some of those intermediaries make no sense to me lol. Feels like they were just plopped in since they’re ‘dystopian’.

    Why isn’t Clockwork Orange directly between 1984 and BNW? It’s all about drugs and gangs then law catching up to them in over the top ways. Why is Soylent Green there? Isn’t that just full on eat people because we’re recycling? How is that anything close to BNW? Maybe some brutalist efficient elements but that doesnt make sense for either 1984 or BNW. 1984 never had the sense of efficiency. It was all about gaslighting, false narrator, and an unknown system trying to make alternative facts…

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      The film doesn’t make it clear, but the novel of A Clockwork Orange, it’s definitely a dystopian future England which is turning into a police state because of the huge number of youth gangs.

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      The “recycling” in Soylent Green is due to global warming and overpopulation causing a bunch of food scarcity. It’s definitely prescient in that way, but also weird in the context of the diagram.

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    I disagree because genetic therapy freely available at gatacca levels plus spaceships, and artificial intelligence freely available and fusion tech freely available at the matrix level are inexistent