This Online Group Is “Showcasing The Idea That We Live In A Dystopia That Is Boring” One Post At A Time (50 Posts)
One may think a dystopia is just a trope of science fiction writing. Outlandish possibilities of human or not-so-human realities, where all that we fear becomes an inescapable fact of daily life. Again, it’s just fiction, right? Well, sometimes the present is a lot more disturbing than meets the eye.
The “Boring Dystopia” subreddit has been sharing posts that show just how broken the matrix is, or, mayhaps, the fact that one of those is just a matter of imagination, as a completely controlled environment would not allow for this much chaos. How did we end up here? Your guess is as good as mine. How do we get out is the question we need to start asking.
As you scroll through this list, make sure to upvote the worst of the worst that reality has to offer, and leave some comments below, and if you’re craving some more bitterness to further ruin your day, here is another article for you. Now let’s get into it.
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Had I Also Given A Donation?
If we are to consider all of the things in life that are looming over us—global warming, the housing crisis, rising inflation, wars, famine, natural disasters, overpopulation, etc.—we’ll very quickly get overwhelmed by the increasingly blank picture that the future paints for us. So we run. We look the other way.
But maybe our avoidance of the burning issues at hand is what’s caused it to get this bad in the first place. So today, let’s touch on just the tip of the iceberg of the dystopian present day we are living in. It may not seem that bad! But the more you read the posts shared by the subreddit r/boringdystopia, the more you may realize how bad we’ve let things get. And yet, it’s not even that interesting, all things considered.
This Is So Painful
They're Not Wrong
In many cases in life, dealing with problems head-on is the only way to get things to change, be it for the better or worse. After all, change is inevitable regardless of how much we want things to stay stable and undisturbed. However, there is only so much that each of us has control over, especially when it comes to problems that are far-reaching and globally concerning.
To protect ourselves from the unrelenting pressure and the constant gnawing feeling of doom, we escape. We look the other way. There are two things that coexist in the matter of escaping reality, and Michael Patanella identifies them as avoidance and dissociation. Both offer temporary relief when taken in moderation, but of course, this can get out of hand easily.
When A Dystopia With Hungry Children Is Painted As A Feel Good Story
SO TRUE!! We no longer have free lunches at our school, and it’s not cheap! (Although the lunches at our school are good)
Death/Penalty
It absolutely is about control over women and girls. And they demonstrate that beautifully when they carve out exceptions for cases of rape and incest. Let me preface by saying I'm 100% pro-choice, I'm not arguing that these exceptions shouldn't be allowed. What I mean is that they do all this performative caterwauling about the sanctity of life, protecting the unborn, and such, but then they claim that abortions are permissible if the pregnancy was conceived by SA. Except that there is no structural or anatomical difference between an embryo created in an act of love vs one that is the result of an assault. Literally NONE. What they are REALLY saying is that the value of the embryo is directly tied to the woman's willingness to accept a penis. If she consented, she is denied the abortion because her embryo is precious enough to gestate but if she was forced into the situation, her embryo drops in value somehow. If she can prove it, of course. And Republicans are usually excellent at believing claims of SA.
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Pro-forced-birth, anti-choice, not pro-life. It's about power over women, controlling women, pure misogyny. Mother and child important until birth, after which both can drop dead.
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When the baby is a foetus and cant feel a thing, its murder, but when its out of the womb heck you can kill it cuz freedom yeehaw
I always ask anti-abortion people how they feel about the death penalty and the mental gymnastics they do is astounding. They all quote the Bible "an eye for an eye". For the record I'm pro choice and against the death penalty. I don't think women should be forced to give birth and I don't think we should kill adult humans. And (unfortunately) I know people who have been murdered and some who murdered people.
They also apparently have forgotten that the "eye for an eye" law was strictly Old Testament. The New Testament got rid of that. It's always strange when they want to carve out exceptions to their own teaching like that.
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I live here now. I've always said I'd NEVER move back home, Mississippi isn't sounding that bad anymore....
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I live in a third world country and here you can get abortion as easily as guns in the US!
That's the ironic thing. It's easier to get a gun. Saw someone post about people who want to get a gun should have to go thru the same criteria that a person has to go thru to get an abortion, up to and including having to walk thru a line of people holding up pictures of their family members who have been killed by guns. Food for thought.
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If you count the women and infants who have died post Roe you will see that pro “life” is a huge lie.
Texas lawmakers are like "All life is sacred until birth... then we can kill you".
Before you get to upset, luckily this fell before even been though first base, years ago. Snopes has more info. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/death-penalty-abortion-texas/
well yes, where else are they going to get soldiers from to send to foreign wars? /s
WHY DO the MEN in the US of A hate women so much? and why is a medical situation anybody elses business??
"We kill people who kill people - because killing people is wrong" yk 🙆🏻♀️
I refuse to use the term pro-life to describe these people who turn their backs on the baby once it's born. I'd rather know a fetus was aborted than to hear about children suffering over the course of their young lives.
I don't understand how the Democrats won the presidency but things are becoming even more biblically grim over there? Iran has their religious police - is that where America is heading?
The Christian fascist could get away with it they would literally nail every woman to the Cross the hypocrites they love having more and more unwanted babies being dumped into foster care being abused and beaten and poverty but whatever the Christian in the churches want and have the country the Communist religious people get
It depends on the state. Vermont USA it is legal due to Prop 5 reproductive autonomy, Freedom of Choice Act and we're one of the 19 states where you can marry your cousin. We're a blue blue state with a republican governor. Our bilingual signs are French and English. Keep Vermont weird.
I'm not sure why Bruno's comment got downvoted into oblivion, but they were actually being truthful. This is "clickbait." I believe it was discussed a long time before this whole anti-abortin mishegoss started, but is not currently being talked about as a real penalty. C'mon, this is Fox news for Pete's sake. Also, not just Texas. I believe Missouri also discussed likening abortion to first degree murder w/ the death penalty. Bring on the downvotes I guess.
The Republicans now are about pissing all over anything that will get a rise out of people. This failed proposal was one of them.The gas stove thing is another example.They want people to be outraged, wether they are conservative or liberal. The MAGA folks will s**t themselves over the feds 'coming for your gas stove', and the libs will s**t themselves over draconian law proposals. It kind of sucks in America right now.
What's your point? That law is only in place so that people can be put on temporary psychiatric holds to keep them safe and get them help. They aren't going to jail or prison. And the same law exists in all 50 states.
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The death penalty is based on an old Assyrian law which pretty much states an eye for an eye. If you steal a cow they get one of your cows, you kill someone you get killed. I'm pro-life but I do agree with the death penalty in some cases like if you betray your country or kill a child. But this is fake news because it will never happen or has even been talked about.
Yes, it was talked about in Texas by Rep. Bryan Slaton in March 2021 when he introduced a bill that would legally qualify abortion as homicide, punishable by death in Texas. The bill didn't make it out of the committee but he announced plans to reintroduce it during the next session when RvW was overturned, and the new session began last month. Please know what you're talking about before declaring something "fake news". This is actually dangerous.
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should have let Texas be there own country. could use a buffer between us and Mexico
Excuse me but how are you able to call something a lie when it's the absolute truth? Like, HOW does one do this? Do you only read information that suits your own confirmation bias? In March 2021, Texas GOP Rep. Bryan Slaton introduced a bill that would legally qualify abortion as homicide, which is punishable by death in the state. Slaton EXPLICITLY stated on numerous occasions that the purpose of the bill was to impose consequences on was women and girls who obtain abortions. The bill never made it out of the committee, thankfully. However, after the initial draft opinion of the Dobbs decision was leaked in May 2022, Slaton said that he intended to reintroduce the bill in the next legislative session, which began last month. And Texas also has a total ban on abortions after about six weeks. So again, your arguments are stunningly inaccurate and the facts simply do not support what you so desperately want to believe.
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Celeb Charity
The coping mechanisms that come with escapism can be destructive and unhealthy, even in the short term. Cheap alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, overeating, endless mind-numbing activities, and easily available credit cards that lead to holidays, mindless purchases, and debt are just a few of the ways people choose to avoid the problems they face.
As stated by Amanda Dacquel, when we avoid, we live on a repeat loop, until we hit a wall at full speed, with a poster on it that says “the real world.” Responsibilities will catch up to us in one way or another, so it’s best to use the tool of escapism in small increments to help restore our batteries rather than numbing us away from existing in the chaos that is life.
Must We Apply Whatever We've Learned?
What's The Cause?
Exactly
For those of us who are a bit too comfortable with escapism, there are ways of getting out of the continuous cycle of mindless pleasure and avoidance of responsibility. According to Patrick Allan, enforcing the “real life-right now” rule may be a good place to start. The more fun you make real life seem, the less you may feel the need to escape it.
Meeting up with your friends instead of blowing them off to play a video game, for example, is essentially substituting one positive experience for another. Just make sure the real-life thing is something you at least think you will enjoy, otherwise it could send you crawling back to escapism. Furthermore, realizing what you’re trying to escape from and why is key to grounding yourself.
Stealing Might Be The Word For It
A Big Sham
I never understood this. If I hadn’t had my parents as co-signers on my mortgage my bf and I and the cats would be living in my car by now. And yet we both rented separately for years with no problem.
The Root Of Our Dysfunction
Let's all thank the Supreme Court and Citizens United. I'll believe "corporations are people, too" [Mitt Romney] when a corporation gets sentenced to death in Texas.
But now we enter the phase where we’ve stopped running away from the problems and come to realize what a mess life is. Can we really prevent the current-day dystopia from spreading further, ruining lives and potentially making us go extinct? According to Duncan Jefferies, the one way to stop sleepwalking towards it all is through an informed citizenry. A what?
He continues to argue that teaching critical thinking in schools and having researchers work across different disciplines so that they’re better prepared to tackle the ethical questions that will shape the 21st century, are ways to achieve this. We need more dialogue between the people working on new technologies and the policymakers who create the laws around them, as well as greater openness about the risks.
Essentially, stay informed and trust the lawmakers to do the right thing. Grand. Guess it’s time to unionize and protest against the system. Just a thought.
America Is A Joke At This Point
Someone posted a photo of their itemised maternity bill from a US hospital on another forum a while back-it included a $50 charge for "skin to skin care." Skin to skin is literally putting the naked baby onto the mother or father's bare chest. It's meant to help with temperature regulation, and is alleged to help soothe the baby immediately after birth, but its not a medical procedure. Mum picks up the baby, puts it on her chest, and the hospital charges $50 for a midwife to watch? It's utterly ludicrous. The American healthcare system is beyond a joke.
Is It Too Challenging?
Pro-Life? Nah, I Think The Right Term Is Pro-Birth
As a dystopic future looms over us and lawmakers become complacent, forgetting to look at the bigger picture, we must remain vigilant and remember that the shape of the world is in our hands. What we do matters and, truthfully, the sheer number of us doing a little every day can lead to something very substantial in a little bit of time. If there is a livable planet in the next 50 years or so that is…
As you continue scrolling through this depressing list, make sure you upvote the ones that are the most important, most shocking, and most… well, the most. Leave some comments, especially those that could restore some faith in humanity, and I shall see you in another, hopefully, happier article!
1y Ago.. And What Has Changed? Shouldn’t Happen In A Developed Country
I get my diabetes medication free. After reading all this stuff, I'm so glad I was born in the UK. It's certainly not perfect, but 1000x better than living in the 'Land of the free'.
The N95 Masks
The Minimum Wage Workers Called "Heroes" But
Please Be Careful
What Do You Do?
Unfortunately, it's very American nowadays. At least our government thinks so... and the people who try to stop it are shut down or too scared to be able to make a difference.
The Part At The Bottom Does Make Me Angry
My taxi driver today was asking about healthcare in the US and I told him about people not having money for insulin just dying. He is a dialysis patient and wondered if the cost was covered. i honestly don't know but I am not super hopeful. But imagine the poor kid and thinking you could have killed your parent via a simple mistake cause health insurance sucks
I'm A Buffalo Fan And I Hate This
:'( The wrong people are in charge because we believe that an object has incredible value.e
Saw This On Another Sub And Thought You Guys Would Like It
Conditioning
I genuinely believe homework should be banned or extremely limited
This Is What We Are Here For?
Word Of The Day Is Respect
It Shouldn't Matter
That's How Inflation Comes
I think we’ve established by now that the whole trickle down thing just doesn’t work.
This Hurts My Soul
You Will Grow Nothing, And Be Happy About It
Government Failouts
And Nothing Will Change
Leasing People Is Slavery
The 13th amendment allows prisoners to be treated as slaves as punishment. See the exclusion clause right in the middle of the text?Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Paid Off Your Loan "Too Fast"
Any Narrative Claiming Our Current Inflationary Environment Is Due To Anything Other Than Price Gouging Is Disinformation
Exactly. Which is why they need to be taxed back at 70% or higher.
I Think Certain Straight White Men Literally Being Above The Law Counts As Dystopian
Gross. Should publish his name like they did with the Stanford swimmer who also got a slap on the wrist. Public opinion did punish him as he deserved.
Just In Case You Didn't Know
It’s certainly not good for all those Africans mining for cobalt in the Congo. I saw pictures the other day, I almost cried.
This Journalist Retweets Every Statement Made In Light Of The Recent Shooting With The Amount Of Money The Person Speaking Has Gotten From The Nra
Does This Fit? I’m Still Figuring Out This Sub
That's Why No One Has Kids?
How Long Until They Get Ones For Chickens?
Its because there is a law requiring all dairy herds to remain in barns. I think it is supposed to be disease prevention measures but it seems cruel
Nestle
Nestle has done terrible things everywhere it goes from stealing water rights from indigenous peoples to selling tainted baby formula
God Save Us All
Don't Know What To Say
There are also more empty homes than homeless people in the US. It’s fùcked up.
Should They Have To Charge?
100%. Not Even A Question
“ … In Case Anyone’s Wondering How Seriously We’re Taking The Climate Crisis”
I Always Wondered How And Why "Public" Universities Got So Expensive In The U.s
Interestingly the Reagan advisor wasn't wrong, only wrong in thinking it was a bad thing (it is bad for the tiny minority in power but not for the rest of us)
Ahhh, No Wonder The End Of Civilization Is So Boring
If You Protest When Cops Kill People... * Checks Notes * They'll Let Children Die?
They are demonized because they earn it.How many people get nervous when they see a police car while driving around or when they see one walking around a store when you stop for gas or groceries?
Note: this post originally had 100 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
I seriously can't handle how dysfunctional my own country is. I can't read all of this.
As European with friends in the US it makes me sad and angry, too. And while we're still better off in Europe in terms of healthcare/support of people with low income etc, income and wealth inequality and all the problems associated with it is growing here as well. Sadly, we (or at least the politicians) are quite arrogant when it comes to the situation in the US instead of trying to implement measures that prevent further inequality so we don't go down that road. Which, I suppose, at least partly shows that many decisions here are also driven by corporate lobbyism - just a bit more covert.
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According to the title I thought that it will be a global post. I was wrong. Could the censors write next time to the title that "strictly US" please?
As lots of these were about those problems of the US half the world is shaking their head about, I honestly wonder why the US is not facing a mass exodus right now.
Reading this post was disturbing & it should be. The 300 million who live in the USA are the only people who can make things better. By educating ourselves about each candidate running for political office at every level & voting for those who will make good changes. Good people have been pushed out of politics because they don't have enough money to be elected. VOTE these rich criminals out!
This post has me searching for razor blade and heading towards my tub. Sheesh. 🤦
There's an old Soviet joke with people of a bunch of different nationalities looking at a painting of Adam and Eve and saying how they must be their nationality. The punchline being "they have no clothes, no shelter, only an apple to eat, and are being told this is paradise. They must be Russian." This joke applies more and more to the US ever day.
I couldn't get through even half these posts without my blood pressure rising 10 points, and it's already a little on the high side. Time for meditation, sunflower seeds, and craft beer.
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at the rate insulin prices are, it might just be cheaper to travel to another country, buy a bunch of insulin and go back to the USA. if it's legal of course.
The fact that kids who can't even f*****g drive are being told that all of this is theirs to fix and we've just accepted it is b******t. I'm 13 and I'm already tired of fighting for basic human rights. I just want to be able to live, but unfortunately it's either waste my life fighting the system with nothing substantial changing or let the world destroy any life I might have. People keep saying that the kids are the future but the kids don't have a damn future
If America wanted to change they could. They are a democracy. I no longer have sympathy for a country whose citizens don't understand that taxes pay for services and that guns are dangerous to have in a society in that quantity without proper cultural controls or main stream safety training. Americans don't seem to care about mass shootings. And who gets killed, if they did laws would change. A person can live without any guns. A complete ban on firearms would positively effect society. Yet corporations control the laws now.
Yeah cause all the s****y stuff that's wrong with the world has been politicized. Deal with it
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Quite a few politicians talk about it, but I'm not sure it's been legislated anywhere.
Load More Replies... Everyone who is depressed after reading this post, I recommend reading 'factfulness' by Hans Rosling. Not to say that there is no suffering in this world, but 1) it shows how the world has on average improved in the last 50-100 years through joint human effort: better health, income, education, equality worldwide. 2) it shows how news outlets play with our cognitive biases eland emotions to generate clicks, and how to be more critical so you get an informed view of the world and are less impacted by your emotions. I wish all of you at least one moment of happiness today.
I've come to believe, by and large, the President is not much more than a figurehead. They can cause damage, but seem to be incapable of doing much good, with few exceptions. Power lies mostly in Congress, which means we're f****d, because we can't rely on our Congress to do anything other than serve their own self-interest.
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I seriously can't handle how dysfunctional my own country is. I can't read all of this.
As European with friends in the US it makes me sad and angry, too. And while we're still better off in Europe in terms of healthcare/support of people with low income etc, income and wealth inequality and all the problems associated with it is growing here as well. Sadly, we (or at least the politicians) are quite arrogant when it comes to the situation in the US instead of trying to implement measures that prevent further inequality so we don't go down that road. Which, I suppose, at least partly shows that many decisions here are also driven by corporate lobbyism - just a bit more covert.
Load More Replies... According to the title I thought that it will be a global post. I was wrong. Could the censors write next time to the title that "strictly US" please?
As lots of these were about those problems of the US half the world is shaking their head about, I honestly wonder why the US is not facing a mass exodus right now.
Reading this post was disturbing & it should be. The 300 million who live in the USA are the only people who can make things better. By educating ourselves about each candidate running for political office at every level & voting for those who will make good changes. Good people have been pushed out of politics because they don't have enough money to be elected. VOTE these rich criminals out!
This post has me searching for razor blade and heading towards my tub. Sheesh. 🤦
There's an old Soviet joke with people of a bunch of different nationalities looking at a painting of Adam and Eve and saying how they must be their nationality. The punchline being "they have no clothes, no shelter, only an apple to eat, and are being told this is paradise. They must be Russian." This joke applies more and more to the US ever day.
I couldn't get through even half these posts without my blood pressure rising 10 points, and it's already a little on the high side. Time for meditation, sunflower seeds, and craft beer.
Load More Replies... at the rate insulin prices are, it might just be cheaper to travel to another country, buy a bunch of insulin and go back to the USA. if it's legal of course.
The fact that kids who can't even f*****g drive are being told that all of this is theirs to fix and we've just accepted it is b******t. I'm 13 and I'm already tired of fighting for basic human rights. I just want to be able to live, but unfortunately it's either waste my life fighting the system with nothing substantial changing or let the world destroy any life I might have. People keep saying that the kids are the future but the kids don't have a damn future
If America wanted to change they could. They are a democracy. I no longer have sympathy for a country whose citizens don't understand that taxes pay for services and that guns are dangerous to have in a society in that quantity without proper cultural controls or main stream safety training. Americans don't seem to care about mass shootings. And who gets killed, if they did laws would change. A person can live without any guns. A complete ban on firearms would positively effect society. Yet corporations control the laws now.
Yeah cause all the s****y stuff that's wrong with the world has been politicized. Deal with it
Load More Replies... https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/may/19/instagram-posts/alabama-law-does-not-criminally-punish-women-who-g/
Quite a few politicians talk about it, but I'm not sure it's been legislated anywhere.
Load More Replies... Everyone who is depressed after reading this post, I recommend reading 'factfulness' by Hans Rosling. Not to say that there is no suffering in this world, but 1) it shows how the world has on average improved in the last 50-100 years through joint human effort: better health, income, education, equality worldwide. 2) it shows how news outlets play with our cognitive biases eland emotions to generate clicks, and how to be more critical so you get an informed view of the world and are less impacted by your emotions. I wish all of you at least one moment of happiness today.
I've come to believe, by and large, the President is not much more than a figurehead. They can cause damage, but seem to be incapable of doing much good, with few exceptions. Power lies mostly in Congress, which means we're f****d, because we can't rely on our Congress to do anything other than serve their own self-interest.
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