For where? And by whom?
Exactly what I came in here to say. There are days I would swear we are already about 50% there.
Not sure I follow you. Are you alluding to the brainwashing of NK’s that they are living the best life on the planet?
That seems clear enough.
It’s the popular theory.
Have you actually read it? I was about to nominate it for least plausible. The divergent books are not plausible but in a different way, because the world is not presented as an evolutionary descendent of ours. But can the country that just legalized same sex marriage really be said to be descending into theocracy?
This.
We are Disposable Human Resources, in their eyes.
It’s a joke. Black humour.
Great thread idea, before some else says it I just have to add least likely: “Soylent Green is People!!!” At least the cannabism, I’ll throw the Mad Max stuff in there as pretty ridiculous too.
There are definitely things from 1984 and Minority Report that seem to be on their way and things involving global warming from other books or movies.
It obviously can’t, which was why I found it so hilarious. Maybe if you live in the Middle East, I guess it would be plausible. A lot of countries there are pretty much theocracies already.
Soylent Green is questionable but Make Room, Make Room, the novel it is based on is quite realistic in its depiction of an over stuffed New York and world. In the book Soylent is just a mash of Soy and Lentils. The eating people stuff was only in the movie.
I’ve thought the first Mad Max movie did a great vision of showing civilization clinging to the edge of collapse, with free roaming gangs, poverty, and under-funded citizen vigilante police.
Rollerball (the original) almost seems naively quaint now. But of course athletes are bought/sold/traded as playthings of the media and the rich…