why are all the most influential dystopian books from britain?
>>24781083If you mean actual dystopian Britain (as in the real country that exists today and is dystopian)Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
>>24781083Ancients aside, there is no need to include the word "dystopian" in your sentence.
>>24781083Because Brits haven‘t had the ability to produce genuinely insightful art in centuries and need to resort to hack genres
>>24781083Have you seen what a shithole Britain has become? They knew
>>24781083Craddle of the Industrial Revolution
>>24781111very interesting quadsi was shocked all those years ago when i found out how far the life expectancy in britain had dropped at the beginning of the industrial revolution
>>24781083Because Ballard is British
>>24781111CHECKED>>24781130>i was shocked all those years ago when i found out how far the life expectancy in britain had dropped at the beginning of the industrial revolutionYo what
>>24781083Because its a dystopia lol
Britain has quite literally become the Airstrip One Orwell predicted in Nineteen Eighty-four.
>>24781083beyond poetic that the little backwater that spawned bacon and hobbes and their misaligned philosophies went the entire course of industrial empire just to birth the modern genre of dystopianism just to become a little backwater again but this time with a fuckton of muslims and nonwhites to compliment their petty authoritarian government
>>24781083>fahrenheit 451>a handjob's tale>i have no mouth and i must scream>the road>oryx and crakeThere are plenty of influential non-British dystopian novels out there. Your premise is hardly true.As to why so many of them are British, it's probably a consequence of English being the most spoken language in the world and the Anglo-American media empire still being a dominant force in the global cultural landscape. A person anywhere in the world is more likely to learn about Huxley, Orwell or even Atwood than about Barjavel or his Ravage novel.
>>24781378England was one of the richest, most competently governed nations on Earth since at least the time of the Anglo-Saxons, right through til just before the present day. Not some "backwater". Tell us where you are from so we can all laugh.
>>24781325>Yo whatthe average life expectancy plummeted when people from the countryside started moving to the cities en masse as a result, the cities became overcrowded and squalid and the work conditions were dreadful, i mean 8 year old kids working for 14 hours a day 6 days a week in coal mines and factories - charles dickens frequently used this as inspiration for his characters as he too was a victim of child labour, working in a decaying warehouse overrun with rats to paste labels on pots for 10 hours a day to support his family
>>24781412It was a backwater anon. Just a European sideshow until the lat 17th century.
>>24781339Britain is actually healing now that the supreme court ruled men aren't actually women bro.Would Love on the Dole be considered dystopian?
>>24781412well it produced plenty of wool
>>24781639its gonna take more than that
>>24781639Loyal Party members would think it's a utopia
>>24781639Wow, Britain is saved!
>>24781639Britain didn't even used to have a Supreme Court. It's an embarrassing Americanism they've imported.Wake me when the aristocracy has actual political power again, then I'll be impressed. Like I would like to see the Duke of Somerset or the Duke of Richmond have actual influence on the national government before I'll declare Britain "saved."
>>24781083Because of Manchester.
>>24781587>he said in english
>>24782322>Britain didn't even used to have a Supreme Court. It's an embarrassing Americanism they've imported.No way HAHAHAHA, bongsisters... is this true?>Wake me when the aristocracy has actual political power againThe old aristocracy was killed off a long time ago and replaced by the anglo-semitic one, you don't want those freaks to have even more power
