The Creepiest Dystopian Thriller You've Never Heard Of
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The early 21st Century is a good time to be thinking about cyberpunk dystopias. Fictional dystopian worlds (and attempted Utopian ones) are interesting thought experiments that have an effect on the populations that read them. 1984 and Brave New World have shaped political discourse in the real world to a substantial degree. But you probably want to be aware of one of the least known and least discussed dystopian novels in recent history. Its obscurity is almost as disturbing as its creepy, all-powerful computer-controlled government. Also, you should be aware of some real-life utopian experiments that have been attempted in the past. Very thought provoking: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/is-silicon-valley-building-universe
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| 0:00.0 | In today's episode, we're going to be talking about a creepy and weird dystopian novel. |
| 0:06.6 | But it's actually creepy and weird for reasons that you probably wouldn't guess. |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome back to another T-Rex talk. |
| 0:20.4 | This is Isaac Botkin, and I am fascinated by dystopian novels. |
| 0:25.9 | Science fiction in general usually depicts a future for people to aspire to or be inspired by. |
| 0:32.9 | And oftentimes science fiction books have given people ideas that they later built out in real life. But then |
| 0:39.1 | you have your dystopian novels, which are more like cautionary tales. And some of those are actually |
| 0:45.6 | our most famous pieces of literature. Things like 1984 and Brave New World are not just some of the |
| 0:50.8 | most popular dystopian novels. They're some of the most popular novels ever. |
| 0:55.9 | So it's a pretty well-established genre at this point. But today I mostly want to talk about |
| 1:01.4 | one book and one book in particular. We'll cover the genre a little bit. In fact, this is a topic |
| 1:07.4 | that I want to get into a little bit more in the future. And probably we should |
| 1:11.4 | dig into some dystopian movies and different themes that we see in those over on the T-Rex Labs |
| 1:17.4 | channel. But for now, I'm going to be talking about the book, This Perfect Day, by a author |
| 1:23.8 | named Ira Levine. Now, I feel like I'm relatively familiar with dystopia novels, and I had never |
| 1:31.7 | heard about this one. I want to thank my friend Ryan for putting me in touch with this book, |
| 1:36.8 | because it had never crossed my desk before. And the name of the author may not be familiar to |
| 1:43.8 | you, but I guarantee you you are |
| 1:46.1 | familiar with some of his other work he's the guy who wrote the stepford wives |
| 1:50.4 | boys from Brazil and let's see rosemary's baby just a lot of different books |
| 1:57.3 | and when he wasn't writing successful books, he was writing plays, some of which |
| 2:01.5 | ran on Broadway for forever. And almost everything that this guy created got turned into a movie |
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