Utopia Is Dystopia

Utopia is a fun pulpy dystopia precisely because no matter how miserable the world it depicts becomes it s not as miserable as the world we ve got.

Utopia is dystopia. It is an antonym of utopia a term that was coined by sir thomas more and figures as the title of his best known work published in 1516 which created a blueprint for an ideal society with minimal crime violence and. But in reality they were originally the same thing. Their clues come hidden in graphic novels named utopia and dystopia from the mysterious jessica hyde sasha lane who also happens to be the subject of the comics themselves. People are afraid of dystopias and want a utopia.

From top clockwise to bottom. A dystopia from ancient greek δυσ bad and τόπος place. Dystopia is a play on the made up word utopia using the prefix dys which means bad or difficult. Inside every utopia is a dystopia striving to get out.

Alternatively cacotopia or simply anti utopia is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. Edenic life affirming communes descend into chaos and waste. Utopia was adapted by gillian flynn from. Desmin borges wilson borges plays the paranoid conspiracy theorist wilson in utopia and is best known for playing edgar quintero on the fx fxx series you re the worst.

Gillian flynn s dystopian comic book thriller for amazon prime video takes a band of nerds down a fortuitously timely rabbit hole. Dan byrd ian byrd plays the nervous geeky dystopia fan ian in utopia and his most prominent roles include playing brandon in the 2010 film easy a and travis cobb on the sitcom cougar town.