Exactly Which Dystopian Novel Are We Living In?

Via ZeroHedge

There’s a debate going on among the disaffected/terrified over which dystopian novel we’re now living in.

As John Rubino remarks, some point to social media addiction and designer drugs to suggest Brave New World.

Others see mass surveillance and pandemic lockdowns as putting us squarely in 1984.

Still others cite online censorship and cancel culture as favoring Fahrenheit 451.

Each of these opinions seems valid, which is confusing.

A prisoner should know the shape of their cell. So it’s a relief to find out that someone (not sure who) has settled the argument by creating the following Venn diagram (Tweeted by our friend David Morgan).

Turns out we’re not in a single dystopian novel. We’re in all of them simultaneously.

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
December 19, 2021 8:19 am

You’ve forgotten The Camp of the Saints.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  hardscrabble farmer
December 19, 2021 11:47 am

We’ve been living in that one since 1965 … the year of the brand new and improved immigration act signed into law by LBJ …

eckbach
eckbach
  Anthony Aaron
December 20, 2021 12:09 am

The Jews worked tirelessly for that ever since the 1924 act mostly shut down their flood from communist countries
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/id/87718.htm

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
  Anthony Aaron
December 20, 2021 12:37 am

Stamp “REVELATIONS” Across the entire Venn diagram and you can pretty accurately sum it all up.

pyrrhuis
pyrrhuis
  hardscrabble farmer
December 19, 2021 5:07 pm

How about H.G.Wells “The Time Machine”?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
December 19, 2021 6:55 pm
Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  hardscrabble farmer
December 21, 2021 12:13 am

Forgotten anything by Phillip K Dick.
Especially “The Man In The High Castle”
Dystopia we are living.

Archeaopteryx Phoenix
Archeaopteryx Phoenix
December 19, 2021 8:19 am

The Bible.

Stucky
Stucky
  Archeaopteryx Phoenix
December 19, 2021 8:26 am

Blasphemy!!

The Bible is NOT a novel. It is not about dystopia, but about Salvation. And Joos are prominently featured.

But, damnmit, thumbs up on a great answer, one that wouldn’t have crossed my mind.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Stucky
December 19, 2021 3:51 pm

They were not prominently featured in the Bible.

Origin Of The Word “Jew”
The word ‘jew’ is a modern word. It’s only been around for a few hundred years so when we talk about jews in ancient times, we cannot use the modern moniker we thoughtlessly use today. In doing so, we mistakenly link modern day ‘jews’ to the people of the Bible, the descendants of Judah.

The word jew comes from, depending on what language we are using, ‘Judean’, which was a person who dwelt in the land of Judea.

If I move to Japan, does that make me Japanese? Thankfully not, and as such, we can say the same thing for the people who moved to the southern part of ancient Palestine in the days of John Hyrcanus. Josephus informs us that it is he that is responsible for bringing in this mixed multitude(mostly Edomites) and forcing them to convert to the laws of Moses, what we later call Christianity.

Later in the 2nd to 6th century A.D., the term Judaism was applied to the religion of these Edomites(Idumea), Canaanites, and Pharisees, just like they hijacked the word “jew” so they could pretend to be the people of the Bible.

This is also why they include the Torah in their “holy” book, their ultimate source of Pharisaism(modern day Judaism), the Babylonian Talmud. It’s Identify theft; they need some truth in their books to push their lies and deception.

“Up to the seventeenth century this word was spelled in Middle English in various ways: “Gyu,” “Giu,” “Gyw,” “Iu,” “luu,” “Iuw,” “Ieu,” “Ieuu,” “Ieuz,” “Iwe,” “Iow,” “Iewe,” “Ieue,” “lue” (“Ive”), “Iew,” “Jew.” All these forms were derived from the Old French “Giu,” which was earlier written “Juieu,” derived from the Latin accusative “Judæum” with the elision of the letter “d.” The Latin form “Judæus” was derived from the Greek ‘Iουδαĩοσ; and this in turn from the Aramaic , corresponding to the Hebrew a gentilic adjective from the proper name “Judah,” seemingly never applied to members of the tribe, however, but to members of the nationality inhabiting the south of Palestine (Jer. xliii. 9).” –Jewish Encyclopedia

very old white guy
very old white guy
  Anonymous
December 20, 2021 5:36 am

Ancient Hebrews, Israel, The children of Israel.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  Archeaopteryx Phoenix
December 19, 2021 2:27 pm

Revelation for sure.

Stucky
Stucky
December 19, 2021 8:31 am

Superman series “Superman: Son of Kal-El”, issue #5.

Superman is revealed to be a homo.

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Ghost
Ghost
  Stucky
December 19, 2021 8:35 am

I’m building Watership Down Here, Y’all! Just peaceful Pyrenese and rabbits as far as the eye can see.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Ghost
December 20, 2021 12:04 am
LJB
LJB
  Stucky
December 19, 2021 9:47 am

Astroman flying way higher than that ole faggot superman ever could.

LJB
LJB
  LJB
December 19, 2021 10:53 am

I could only find the instrumental version, I guess the gay mafia had the other one scrubbed from the interweb.
“Astro Man”

Here I come to save the day

A little boy inside a dream just the other day
His mind fell out of his face and the wind blew it away
A hand came out from heaven and pinned a badge on his chest
It said “Get out there, man, and do your best” ooh

They call him Astro Man
And he’s flyin’ higher than
That faggot Superman ever could

Oh, they call him Cosmic Nut
And he’s twice as dense as Donald Duck
And he’ll try his best to screw you up
The rest of your mind
Oh, regard my baby, come on!

Astro Man, flyin’ across the sky two times higher
Than that old faggot Superman ever, ever could
Ever could, yeah
Ha

There he goes, there he goes
Where he stops, no one knows
There he goes, there he goes, ya
He’s tryin’ to, tryin’ to blow out the rest of your mind
He’s gonna blow out the rest of your mind
Talkin’ about lookin’ for peace of mind
Astro Man will leave it in pieces
Have you put our trouble behind him, yeah
Make you fly around in pieces
Yeah, blow out the rest of your mind
Astro Man will blow out the rest of your mind
He’s gonna blow out the rest of your mind
Hoo-hoo, ye-ye-ye-yeah, blow out the rest, blow out the rest of
Your mind

Try this one……
https://my.mail.ru/mail/alex-enm/video/4607/184021.html

John Pietrusiewicz
John Pietrusiewicz
  Stucky
December 19, 2021 3:24 pm

You just made me sick. At least it’s not Kamela.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Stucky
December 19, 2021 10:23 pm

Superman is revealed to be a homo.

NOt only is he homo, but he also doesn’t have a mouth….

Walt
Walt
December 19, 2021 8:46 am

So that’s a 360 degree field of fire in a target rich environment.
On the moral high ground to boot.
Happy days.

Georges S
Georges S
December 19, 2021 8:54 am

Two other works could have been shown here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film)

Mr. Ed, Shape Shifter
Mr. Ed, Shape Shifter
December 19, 2021 8:56 am

Where we are headed: The Children of Men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men

Guest
Guest
December 19, 2021 9:34 am

Now there are articles explaining memes, I guess.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Guest
December 19, 2021 9:40 am

My thought too, Guest. We’re gettin’ stupider.

Javelin
Javelin
December 19, 2021 9:39 am

I was thinking we’re headed for a “hunger games” scenario where a few elites in their gay, foppish attire living in Districts one and two ( New York, DC, Hollywood, silicone valley) Lord over the peasant workers in the flyover districts.

TonyBaloney
TonyBaloney
December 19, 2021 10:01 am

Forgot Atlas Shrugged.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  TonyBaloney
December 19, 2021 10:38 am

Yes indeed. That would be my preference except one of my kids lives in the blast radius of the Doomsday Device. I want to be Ragnar Danneskjold training the Pom Poms of my gun boat on the evil fuqueres, flying the Black Flag and commerce raiding.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Harrington Richardson
December 19, 2021 10:30 pm

Atlas Shrugged. Also my choice….

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  TonyBaloney
December 19, 2021 2:29 pm

The mass resignations and abandonment of work are certainly reminiscent….although I don’t think that much of what is going on has anything to do with principles for most of the folks (some without a doubt – “vaccine” and mask mandates, etc.).

Swrichmond
Swrichmond
  TonyBaloney
December 19, 2021 6:19 pm

This. Watching Venezuela wind down…the same is now happening here, we are 30 years behind them.

flash
flash
December 19, 2021 10:39 am
Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
December 19, 2021 10:46 am

They could all be operative. Michael D. O’Brien explained Armageddon/Revelation as not occurring linearly or in series but rather all at once arrayed across the heavens.

B_MC
B_MC
December 19, 2021 11:19 am

COVID and the Law of Karma

The human family was not in right relationship with nature, God, source, our higher selves — whatever you want to call it. A karmic debt built up over decades of US imperialism (and other insults to human decency), which sprouted dreadful vines from the bloody soil of centuries of unimaginable exploitation and genocide.

We lazily pretend the colonial era somehow ended with the British Empire.

The central-bank-perpetual-war-story arc (that Catherine Austin Fitts talks about) connects the founding of the British and Dutch East India companies four centuries ago with the moment the first crisis actor keeled over for the cameras in Wuhan, China…..

Shifting east, karma is a big topic.

Its lean Zen Buddhist conception will serve us here, as opposed to the complicated ideas of, say, Tibetan Buddhism, which focuses on cycles of death and rebirth, and incorporates deities from earlier shamanic practices.

For Zen practitioners, karma is a forthright law that corresponds with the notion in physics that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Even if I escape punishment in human institutions for some misdeed, any harm I do to another being puts me out of harmony with the way of things; I disrupt a cosmic homeostasis….

With sufficient conscious evolution, we humans wouldn’t need laws to govern behaviour, much less police to enforce them. (This is what serious anarchists think.) Instead, our spiritual poverty, our conscious stuntedness, has led to a Pied Piper hell realm where kids contract myocarditis and Australia’s First People are trucked to internal displacement camps….

Let’s build something new and different, based on the principle of compassion and mutual assistance. Perhaps it’s nothing new, but instead deeply ancient. Terence McKenna called it the Archaic Revival and I consider this an intriguing latter-day prophecy.

A radical shift in this direction could interrupt the globalist plan and reduce our karmic burden such that we could assuage our shortcomings by, perhaps. lighting some incense, and not (for example) tossing our children on a pyre.

COVID and the Law of Karma

John Pietrusiewicz
John Pietrusiewicz
  B_MC
December 19, 2021 12:27 pm

Thanks. Karma is a favorite topic of mine since I got on the Spiritual path some 40+ years ago. The interesting thing in these dystopian times is we are dealing not only with personal Karma, but also with national, and even World Karma all at the same time. I am a student of the Varaigi adepts, the main part of the Karmic teaching is we can eliminate or at least somewhat control personal Karma through paying attention to the passions of the mind: lust, greed, anger attachment, and vanity. We do the opposite: forgiveness and tolerance, contentment, detachment, discrimination, and humility. Keeping in balance is really about paying attention to the virtues. But that’s on a personal level. I don’t know if we can do anything about national and world Karma. As that is dealing with Fate Karma. As already mentioned, we can adjust our day-to-day Karma. But Fate Karma is another story. Again, thanks and blessings for the nice read.

Stucky
Stucky
  John Pietrusiewicz
December 19, 2021 12:56 pm
John Pietrusiewicz
John Pietrusiewicz
  Stucky
December 19, 2021 1:56 pm

The fun thing about Seinfeld, it was all about the funny little karmic plays happening in their lives.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  John Pietrusiewicz
December 19, 2021 2:44 pm

God created the law of Karma for people who don’t believe in God. That includes Nations who act like their bad deeds will not come back on them.

As a nation we have been writing check on the bank of life but we weren’t making any deposits. Now the checks are starting to bounce.

John Pietrusiewicz
John Pietrusiewicz
  Fleabaggs
December 19, 2021 3:28 pm

I see Karma more as a gateway to God. Look at how nations in the bible got off track and got the wrath of God. The Spiritual laws are real and Karma is the most basic law. Love, Divine love is the only way to get past Karma.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  John Pietrusiewicz
December 19, 2021 4:24 pm

That’s correct but I wanted to make the point that we as a nation are Godless and are going to reap what we have sown. Hopefully we repent.

John Pietrusiewicz
John Pietrusiewicz
  Fleabaggs
December 19, 2021 4:38 pm

Well said.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  John Pietrusiewicz
December 19, 2021 11:10 pm

If Karma were real then Pelosi, Obama, Schumer, and a host of others of that ilk wouldn’t be out and about, slithering along happily…

John Pietrusiewicz
John Pietrusiewicz
  Mygirl....maybe
December 20, 2021 11:43 am

Karma works on its own time. Sometimes it’s right of way. Sometimes it’s in the next life. Understanding how Karma works is one of the blessings of God.

B_MC
B_MC
  John Pietrusiewicz
December 19, 2021 4:45 pm

.

B_MC
B_MC
  John Pietrusiewicz
December 19, 2021 4:48 pm

Karma is a favorite topic of mine since I got on the Spiritual path some 40+ years ago.

The author of the piece, Guy Crittenden, reveals how he came to his revelation in another article…

My career as a full-time researcher began after a life-changing trip to Peru in late 2013 that I took to celebrate a career milestone: 25 years as an environmental journalist. Our group trekked the Amazon for a week, then attended a retreat center near Iquitos where we had the opportunity to consume the shamanic visionary brew ayahuasca over the course of three nighttime ceremonies.

So much was revealed to me those three nights, my paradigm shifted so greatly, that I left my corporate writing and editing job within a year, and became a full-time researcher and investigator, focusing on the intertwining themes of higher consciousness and spiritual liberation, and their opposites: corporate and government corruption, colonialism and imperialism, and the underlying philosophical support mechanism for those: scientific materialism or “scientism” (which is a religion of sorts).

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There Are No Viruses. It’s All Frequency.

We’ve learned that it’s all about frequency — that is to say, the almost exclusive focus on chemical pollution in the environment and the human body is a misdirection, pointing us away from the telecom signals that are the true cause of many illnesses as well as crashing bird populations and the so-called “insect apocalypse.” (We’ve lost 75 per cent of our insects in most places. Did you notice?)

There Are No Viruses. It’s All Frequency.

John Pietrusiewicz
John Pietrusiewicz
  B_MC
December 19, 2021 8:02 pm

Awesome. I am familiar with the Virus BS, and Andrew Kaufman. Sounds like an awesome book. Will check it out. Thanks.

Vigilant
Vigilant
  B_MC
December 19, 2021 8:46 pm

 “telecom signals that are the true cause of many illnesses”
TRUE

The FCC is not doing its job of protecting the citizenry. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 explicitly states that health effects of the new gen technologies must be disregarded. 5G has been proven to be exponentially more harmful than 1st Gen, and yet we have the same non-concern for the health of our citizenry.

Horst
Horst
  B_MC
December 19, 2021 4:51 pm

Karma is not at work in this world, the entities who run this place are clearly not affected by something like karma. Just consider the history of wars, or the human condition in general. For a black pill about this world I recommend the pinned introduction video of the Forever Conscious Research Channel on YT.

Jerven
Jerven
December 19, 2021 11:51 am

Heinlein’s Farnhalm’s Freehold

The destruction of western civilization, decimation of the white race, the weakening and castration of the male survivors, with the females kept as slaves.

Now tell me that most of TPTB aren’t salivating dreaming of just that happening.

StackingStock
StackingStock
December 19, 2021 12:13 pm

Where we were, are and will end up. Thousands of years of data can’t be wrong.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  StackingStock
December 19, 2021 1:18 pm

What an album…! I never tire of it.

fujigm
fujigm
December 19, 2021 1:29 pm

Doesn’t matter which novel we’re “in”.
Noise and rantings of the panicked and the panickers.
Read any history book about hard times.
One should have real money, solid shelter, and food stores for the coming winter.
And sufficient weapons and munitions to hunt and protect your family.
Same as it ever was.
And never let them tie your hands behind your back….

i forget
i forget
December 19, 2021 1:45 pm

The Reflexology of Intra/Inter Group Dynamics, or The Borg: Resistance Is Futile For Kindermen Fight Club Flies Longin’ To A’Toll & Lord It Over The Indifferent Islands.

Half Dome, in Yosemite, in Yo Semite Smiters, in Brokedown Brokeback Bicameral Semi-Hemispherical Brain-Mountain Cliffs in General, Steep & Slick Slopes All, illustrate the Power of Glaciation & Bastiat’s Busted Glass Mal-Economy Explication of Perpetual Ever So Slow Motionlessness.

So yeah, all of ‘em titles are worthy of DysTrophies.

Because heads are hard like granite, cracked & fissured & slippery…& climbers, let alone free soloists, are rarely born & never made.

Original & always the best version of Just Dropped In To See What Condition The Extraordinary Rendition Human Condition’s In:

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  i forget
December 19, 2021 5:24 pm

Great version.

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2
  i forget
December 19, 2021 11:05 pm

That is horrible.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
December 19, 2021 2:26 pm

Funny that the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is never in the venn diagram. Nice to see Brazil added and a Handmaid’s tale in a smaller segment.

Dagobaz
Dagobaz
December 19, 2021 3:00 pm

Darkness at Noon.

Complete with capricious cancellation.

You could really argue that we are living through elements of all of them. The Hindu would simply shrug and say: Kali Yuga —
Which, according to them only has about 322,000 more years to run.

Rolf
Rolf
December 19, 2021 8:24 pm

Ice Nine would be nice

Archeaopteryx Phoenix
Archeaopteryx Phoenix
December 19, 2021 8:53 pm

Interesting. Hadn’t seen this yet.

Well, this Boomer has been redpilled thoroughly.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Archeaopteryx Phoenix
December 19, 2021 9:01 pm

Archie?? That’s not you, is it??

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Abigail Adams
December 19, 2021 10:02 pm

That’s me without my hat Abby. I wanted to break out for a day of fun so I popped 80 mg’s of Prednisone and hopped in the truck.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Fleabaggs
December 19, 2021 10:09 pm

That’s some hardcore passion you have there. I’m taking you with me next time I go shopping in the city!

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Fleabaggs
December 19, 2021 10:52 pm

You were really on your game that day, weren’t you?

If you really want to understand what the ‘novel’ we’re living in is…go watch Network. 1976. No ‘pandemic’ but everything else the same-o, same-0, nothing new under the sun. The patterns repeat, tyranny, revolution, peace, indifference, complacency, tyranny…. and….
I’m mad as hell and I’m not taking it anymore….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuS3dxKK9U

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Mygirl....maybe
December 19, 2021 11:07 pm

A few roids go a long way.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Fleabaggs
December 19, 2021 11:15 pm

Sometimes you justhave to stand and scream at the sky. Shake your fists scream Fuck you, you sorry son of a bitch, Fuck yooooooo dead you sorry lying sack of shit, you lying motherfucker, you miserable liar….

Ever read The Mysterious Stranger?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Mygirl....maybe
December 19, 2021 11:35 pm

No. Do you have a quick rundown of it/

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Fleabaggs
December 19, 2021 11:47 pm

Mark Twain….one of the darkest tales ever written.

“It caught us suddenly, that name did, and our work dropped out of our hands and broke to pieces—a cannon, a halberdier, and a horse. Satan laughed, and asked what was the matter. I said, “Nothing, only it seemed a strange name for an angel.” He asked why.

“Because it’s—it’s—well, it’s his name, you know.”

“Yes—he is my uncle.”

He said it placidly, but it took our breath for a moment and made our hearts beat. He did not seem to notice that, but mended our halberdiers and things with a touch, handing them to us finished, and said, “Don’t you remember?—he was an angel himself, once.”

“Yes—it’s true,” said Seppi; “I didn’t think of that.”

“Before the Fall he was blameless.”

“Yes,” said Nikolaus, “he was without sin.”

“It is a good family—ours,” said Satan; “there is not a better. He is the only member of it that has ever sinned.”

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3186/3186-h/3186-h.htm

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Mygirl....maybe
December 19, 2021 11:50 pm

Never new he did that type of stuff.
On a lighter note.

Forget that one. This Chromebook is hard on my bp.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Fleabaggs
December 19, 2021 11:57 pm

There was a side to Twain that was bleak, black and full of anger and wrath. He excoriated, blasted and destroyed shibboleths, politicians, pastors and frauds. HIs opinion of Congress was spot on. Go read Letters from the Earth, or To the Person Sitting in Darkness.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Fleabaggs
December 20, 2021 12:06 am

Error code….

Twain was much more than a humorist…much more.

DiggertheCat
DiggertheCat
December 19, 2021 10:54 pm

How anyone could make a list such as this, and not have the classic Atlas Shrugged at the top, knows nothing of dystopian novels.
Sadly, there is no John Galt, and sadder still, no Galt’s Gulch.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  DiggertheCat
December 19, 2021 11:51 pm

John Galt is a state of mind…. John Galt is a decision made, damn the consequences.

Dalip
Dalip
December 21, 2021 2:11 am

We are living in the Prologue of a “novel” yet to be written that will be titled ‘The Great Reset’…