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Utopia's evil twin, where the future is bright, sterile, and watching you sleep.
means An imagined society defined by oppression, suffering, or control, usually dressed up as progress.
from Coined from Greek dys- (bad) plus topos (place), the dark mirror to Thomas More's utopia, which itself slyly punned on no-place.
First useJohn Stuart Mill deployed it in 1868 parliament.
Genre stapleOrwell and Huxley made it required reading.
Always relevantEvery generation insists it lives in one.