dystopic, idiotic

It's great fun to see that there is no a limit to human stupidity when it comes to inventing dystopias.

No, before you crucify me, I am not speaking of idiocy of the writer. I am not speaking of idiocy of the movie. I am not even speaking of idiocy of the reader. And I am not speaking of idiocy of the novel.

I am speaking of the obvious idiocy of an hypothetical humanity that has worked to build regimens and worlds where the rules are so far from common sense of anyone to result unbelievable. Understanding what was the path of acceptance of such schemes and rules seems, at least for me, too great to be overcome.

How is it possible, I wonder, that a society evolves in a completely idiotic allowing deadly elimination games or a rigid organization for unknown reasons, or a very expensive continuous control of its own citizens? How can a society be allowed to evolve in this way, and what benefits can draw?

Or. Maybe the whole thing relies on the hypothesis raised by the Idiocracy movie? It is more realistic a future in which the idiots breed far more than smart people and are therefore intended to drastically reduce the IQ of mankind? Everything returns, in the end?

To think of it, however, the various dystopias are not so far from reality. Whenever I face directly or indirectly the Italian institution, the blind bureaucracy, idiocracy and gerontocracy spread in my country, I wonder if really we are already living in a dystopia and, above all, how we got here.

Anyway.

Let's try to lighten the load. I promise that, if one day I had to explore the genre and write a dystopian novel, this will meet the following:

1. A totalitarian state requires all citizens to dress up as plush animals. Because yes. And also because a population forced to dress ridiculously will be less capable to revolt against the oppressive government. Try it, to protest dressed in a pink bunny suit.

2. The population is divided into exclusive castes determined by plush animals represented by people's clothes. There are the arrogant pigs, the cute rabbits, the adorable kittens, the annoying monkeys, the elusive unicorns.

3. The main character does not accept having to dress up as platypus. Tries to be accepted by other castes (ducks, beavers, otters) taking advantage of the similarity of his clothes with them. But inevitably fails and is repelled. He ends up rebelling and starts to dress differently. With the plastic bags of the packaging of plush clothes. Others imitate him. This is the beginning of a revolution. The plastic bag revolution.

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