I wasn't sure if this post should go on the Moon blog or not, but I decided that I wasn't exactly whining in despair about this subject. Mostly just talking about it. So I suppose this goes here?
You start to talk about what's wrong outside of this "utopia" and you're silenced. You challenge the norm in any way and you're pressured, or at worst, forced to comply. You try to leave and they force you to stay, stating that they are doing so for your own safety. And if all that doesn't work, they violate your very mind just so that you won't be a problem to their "perfect" society any longer.
Many shows and books use these dystopias, and for me they do achieve their intended effect (I start freaking out because of the overwhelming sense of wrongness), but...sometimes I feel like I'm jarred more by these than others around me (I usually stop watching the show or reading the book because I don't want to have to deal with it anymore. I don't think that the authors were intending that). It just strikes at my core. It's...WRONG...
The worst part in my opinion is the violation of someone's mind. Changing and controlling the very way they think to enforce they way they should act, and they'll even feel like you've done the right thing because that's the way you want them to feel! That very act is imprisoning that person without their knowledge or consent. They don't even have a way to fight it! There's no freedom, no choice, no way to think for yourself because your mind has been tampered with!
It...freaks me out. A lot.
