(dis) Utopian was the word I was trying to think of. Thanks!
btw My Aunt writes: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Champagne in one hand - strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"
"...Utopian Fiction and Social (Dis)Order
Since the publication of Sir Thomas More’s original Utopia in 1516, writers have produced thousands of fictional societies with social orders based on everything from communism to Christianity, and from matriarchy to military dictatorship. Whether these societies are essentially good (“eutopian”) or essentially bad (“dystopian”), the work of utopian fiction is always, on some level, to question the assumptions of the society in which the reader lives."
The following is not my quote, but explains why I say things like "disability does not exist". People are taught that pain & fragility are evil & bad....Lazy M_fuckers
"In Brave New World, first published in 1932, Huxley paints the picture of a world that is willing to surrender true joy for a bland happiness free of suffering, that is willing to abandon truth for comfort, that is willing to eschew heights in order to avoid depths, and that is quick to surrender human ambition and individual personality for the sake of societal harmony. It is a frightening presentation, precisely because it does not seem too improbable."
Titles collected from web: I've read the bolded ones (& may or may not remember them)...Is it just me? I don't find the movie 1984 depressing at all. At the end he breaks through all the brain washing & whispers "I love you"...he is the winner! (I haven't read the book in a long time & don't remember)
Genesis
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
George Orwell, 1984, Animal Farm
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (book 4)
Ann Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Sartre, No Exit
Voltaire, Candide (if I remember correctly this isn't really dis/utopian as it didn't create a fictional world. I thought Sartre's The Flies & Nausea, Kafka's The Trial, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment would fit into this catagory - I guess not)
Thomas More, Utopia (book 2)
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Dante's Divine Comedy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
Robert Heinlein, Farnham's Freehold
Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
John Varley, "The Persistence of Vision"
"...Utopian Fiction and Social (Dis)Order
Since the publication of Sir Thomas More’s original Utopia in 1516, writers have produced thousands of fictional societies with social orders based on everything from communism to Christianity, and from matriarchy to military dictatorship. Whether these societies are essentially good (“eutopian”) or essentially bad (“dystopian”), the work of utopian fiction is always, on some level, to question the assumptions of the society in which the reader lives."
The following is not my quote, but explains why I say things like "disability does not exist". People are taught that pain & fragility are evil & bad....Lazy M_fuckers
"In Brave New World, first published in 1932, Huxley paints the picture of a world that is willing to surrender true joy for a bland happiness free of suffering, that is willing to abandon truth for comfort, that is willing to eschew heights in order to avoid depths, and that is quick to surrender human ambition and individual personality for the sake of societal harmony. It is a frightening presentation, precisely because it does not seem too improbable."
Titles collected from web: I've read the bolded ones (& may or may not remember them)...Is it just me? I don't find the movie 1984 depressing at all. At the end he breaks through all the brain washing & whispers "I love you"...he is the winner! (I haven't read the book in a long time & don't remember)
Genesis
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
George Orwell, 1984, Animal Farm
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (book 4)
Ann Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Sartre, No Exit
Voltaire, Candide (if I remember correctly this isn't really dis/utopian as it didn't create a fictional world. I thought Sartre's The Flies & Nausea, Kafka's The Trial, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment would fit into this catagory - I guess not)
Thomas More, Utopia (book 2)
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Dante's Divine Comedy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
Robert Heinlein, Farnham's Freehold
Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
John Varley, "The Persistence of Vision"