Somebody, somewhere, once...became acquainted with dystopia as a phenomenon through books and films. Terms like ``Big Brother`` or ``Orwellian`` have become part of the everyday vocabulary of the population. But despite the countless books, films, documentaries, TV series and comics that are available today and that deal with dystopian themes - something strange happened.
Unfortunately, we have that ``honor``, a historical moment, to be in a real time dystopia.
Like the frog from the boiling water experiment, when it escapes from the pot if it is immediately placed in boiling water and remains to be boiled if the temperature of the water is slowly increased - so too we, reading and watching dystopian themes on the screen, have failed to recognize the symptoms in time. And now we are boiling in the dystopian stew.
Because today...we are already living the dystopia. Adults are self-censoring. So that no one hears anything. So that no one somewhere tips off. And the little humanity that thrives in their brains is killed. After the royal rent is gone. The dividend of fear. The two hundred euros. Such people feed that dystopia. In its stomach our past, present and future end, the destinies of unborn children end. But that is not the worst. The worst comes for the next generations who will be promoted from wage slaves to chattel slaves. When for a written opinion on a virtual medium one will go to prison, will be beaten and will be left on the street. When the price of bare physical survival will increase significantly, as it already is. Which means for some 10 to 15 years from now.
The last bastion of independent thought, besides the inside of the skull (which citizen Winston Smith discussed at length) is the virtual world.
But the virtual is only a reflection of reality. The number and activity of membership in a virtual platform/community that would be a deliberate or accidental gathering of characters with alternative views on reality - does not always reflect the eventual possibility of generating a factor that could influence public opinion.
That is the problem with virtual communities. The penetration of activity from pages with binary code into reality seems to be somewhat unlikely. If they are not an extension of some real life activism, then the reach of such communities remains limited within the framework of virtuality.
(Roger Mortis, 111)
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