While we may imagine a dystopian future of thought police, killer robots, and nuclear fallout, the real future predictions are much more boring. Instead of being brutally brainwashed and enslaved by fascist, authoritarian regimes, we have willingly enslaved ourselves. By allowing the top 1% to get exponentially richer, we drown in a sea of debts, tech, advertising, endless wars, environmental destruction, addictions, depression… the list goes on.
Brilliant, isn’t it? But it’s ok; there’s always Facebook to scroll through (Bored Panda too, obvs), Netflix to watch, chemical-laden meals to consume, manufactured outrages over a mermaid’s skin color to comment on. Who’s got time for thoughtful resistance in this sick, sad world? Even those that think they are resisting by electing bigoted billionaires, bankers and Eton toffs to represent them are simply playing into their hands, as their dishonest, scaremongering claptrap divides us ever further over political, racial and gender lines!
Sometimes we need to take a step back and see the forest for the trees. This list, compiled by Bored Panda, contains some pretty terrifying examples of present-day dystopian society, things that make you realize that beyond all the distractions of trying to survive and thrive in the rat race, something’s not quite right with this world.
So if you didn’t find the sinister scenes of mindless automatons chanting “send her back” chilling enough, scroll down below to get a reality check on the spookily Orwellian society we are allowing to be constructed, and let’s see if we can fix our near future in the comments! If you want to see even more proof of our dystopian world, be sure to check out our previous list!
#1 Immigrants
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#2 This Is Caleb. Caleb Has A Degree In Zoology And Asks His Customers What Their Favorite Animal Is. He Gives Them Facts While Completing Their Orders!
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#3 Real Problem
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#4 Charity
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#5 Put The Blame Where It Belongs
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#6 A Child Can’t Stay On The Transplant List, Solely Because He’s Homeless
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#7 Calling An Ambulance In USA
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#8 Stealing An Education
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#9 Need Books? Donate Plasma!
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#10 I Had To Pay $39.35 To Hold My Baby After He Was Born
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#11 Anything Different Would Simply Be Un-American
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#12 Health Care
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#13 Watch This Advert Or Choke To Death
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#14 Only In America Would A Restaurant Display On The Wall That They Don’t Pay Their Staff Enough To Live On
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#15 Public Relations
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#16 Remember The Panama Papers?
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#17 “Today My Client Was Excited To Push The Elevator Buttons On The Way To Her First Deportation Hearing”
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#18 I Don’t Like This Episode Of Black Mirror
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#19 Capitalism In A Nutshell
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#20 Good Article. No Surprises. “It’s Not About Wanting A Pay Raise Or Extra Income, It’s Just About Wanting A Livable Wage”
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#21 Both Are In The Wrong But Look At How The Pictures Are Depicted
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#22 Not A Bad Plan
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#23 It’s All About Priorities
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#24 Bathroom Sticker
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#25 Teeth Are A Luxury Only Paying Customers Are Allowed
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#26 Ambulances For 3k? Lets Just Call An Uber
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#27 Positive News
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#28 This Feels Straight Out Of 1984…
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#29 This Is How Expensive It Is To Attempt Suicide In The US
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#30 Open Office
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