Shadow Teck's video: Dystopias: A Portal To Human Imagination Video Essay

Dystopias: A Portal To Human Imagination (Video Essay) Script: So in our first book “Brave New World” *pull out book from bookshelf and show in focus with the camera* we come to a realization that we can’t have both art in a perfect society where everyone is happy. Utopian societies work on a balanced function among communities of people and art brings an imbalance. Art isn’t perfect and it can bring just as much despair as goodness. Just like how a sad song can make you sad, but a happy song can obviously make you happy. Utopians only want happy songs, so instead the idea is completely erased so it’s no longer a worry. This makes you question the “perfectness” of an utopian society. Individual freedom is no longer an option and you are rather products of contained expressions. Utopians can act more like glorified dystopias, because you have similar limits and restrictions to expressions as a dystopian. I’m going to read this book called “Utopia” by Sir Thomas More and give you my opinion on how he supposedly shows how a “perfect” society would actually work. So I’m back about a month later. You wouldn’t know because this video is obviously already published. I had a slight issue where I lost licensing to my video editing software somehow and had to wait a whole month to buy a new one. But! In the meantime I had a chance to finally finish this very tedious and borderline insane book called “Utopia”. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great book, but it’s equivalent to reading an entire modern novel nowadays, but in all hood slang. I don’t want to bore you nor spoil anything so i’ll just give a quick run down of the book. Basically Sir Thomas More was able to write an entire satire about English economy, politics, and society. He built this imagined island called “utopia” and made up a perfect government that fired shots at the English society he lived in. Sir Thomas More was also one of the only authors to successfully write a Utopian society that was placed on earth, and it being functional. While I was reading this book I came across the word “outopos” which ironically mean “not a place”. This term was first coined by More when he wrote the book Utopia. This is also the first time the word was used as well. Even back then, More knew that his society could never be implemented into modern society and he even mentions it multiple times throughout the book. He knew utopia was an imagined place and could never come to life. But the question is, is it a dystopia like all the other attempts to make one? In short yes because if you were listening closely I said that utopias and dystopias are only imagined. Of course they can exist in your head but if you're able to play it out into real life scenarios such as Thomas More did to the current English society AND have it function, it can exist in a mental state. That’s how the word dystopia came into play. Dystopia (“dys” meaning bad and “utopia” literally meaning utopia) was first used by John Stuart Mill in the 1800’s to describe the government's Irish land policy. He too was able to use the term to describe a state of society and represent it to the current events. Now obviously he was more biased and he didn’t make a functioning society out of it, but he still coined the term which became helpful. *transition* Now you are probably wondering why the video is titled so strangely and so click baited, but it’s not. Not really anyway. When you translate both Utopia and Dystopia into states of mind rather than just words, you get a whole new meaning to them. Both are states of mind people can never reach, but each world becomes a portal of imagination where you can wake up in a different perspective. You have two points of views about daily tasks and more intimate ones such as solving, creating, and imagining. These two worlds can become an individual philosophy in itself. That may have been why Utopia was generalized as a philosophy book instead of a historical novel or just an essay. Satires lives everywhere, and so does corruption. Don’t live your life thinking you're in a utopia, because you may very well be stuck inside your own dystopia. Previous Video: https://youtu.be/v5J-4QgNIq4 Social ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Discord: discord.gg/D2rECJC Github: https://github.com/ShadowTeck Website:https://shadowteck.github.io/Shadow-Teck-Personal/ Portfolio: https://shadowteck.github.io/Portfolio/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shadow_Teck Instagram: @shadow_teck or https://www.instagram.com/shadow_teck/ Music ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Tik Tac - BROCKBEATS https://youtu.be/fr_khggNaPo Fast Lane - LAKEY INSPIRED https://youtu.be/SVBNkEu3pzo sunset - prod. by lukrembo https://youtu.be/gv7hcXCnjOw Tags ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Dystopias,Utopia,utopias becoming dystopias,utopias dont exist,utopia vs dystopia,brave new world,sir thomas more,sir thomas more utopia,dystopia video essay,utopia video essay,enlightenment literature