DYSTOPIA
|disˈtōpēə| noun
an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
In the context of HIDDEN TRUTHS: DISRUPTING UTOPIA, the term dystopia is not presented as the opposite of a utopia, but instead as an imagined place that contains the remnants of a failed utopia. The realities of dystopia often encompass failed aspirations and untenable futures leading to a degraded society. Dystopias encompass the failures of utopian ideals, many of which are realized in the present. Citizens of a dystopia are subject to an authority that imposes control over them through hierarchies and systems of oppression. They look nostalgically to the past for solutions to heal their corrupted society.