“Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.” said Rush Limbaugh. I believe that he is saying that no matter how we change or what we change, we will never have a perfect world. Many things make a dystopian world so horrendous, these are just a few of the key elements that make the dystopian future so treacherous.

My first point would be citizens living in a dehumanized state. One of the key things in a dystopian future would be the horrible, dehumanized state that the citizens live in. My first key piece of evidence is “A buzzer sounded in George’s head. His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm” This quote relates to the topic because it is explaining how the citizens in this story are not even allowed to have their own free thoughts in their heads. The second piece of evidence I would like to use is “‘I thought you said you wanted to talk’? ‘I lied I just wanted to talk to you without a speaker’” This quote from the text is related to the topic because the citizens are not even allowed to talk without constantly being listened to. If that is not living in a miserable, dehumanized state i’m not sure what is.

The second topic I would like to elaborate on would be how a figurehead is worshipped. The first quote I pulled from the text would be “Central has over a 99% success rate with the test, we don't question it. ”This quote relates to the topic. It relates because the citizens in this story think that the leaders in ‘central’ know and control everything. The citizens in this story put full trust in ‘central’ and do not question it. My second quote from the short stories would be “Sometimes it was easier to let something bigger than yourself take control” The citizens in this story are saying that they would rather let ‘central’ take control of their lives, which I think is really one of the key foundations of a dystopian culture.

My third and last topic I would like to go further on would be how citizens are under constant surveillance. My first supportive piece of textual evidence would be “‘I thought you said you wanted to talk’? ‘I lied I just wanted to talk to you without a speaker’”. In this story the citizens don’t even feel like they can speak in their own homes because they feel like they are under constant surveillance. My second piece of evidence is “Mr. White from human services stood in the door, flanked by a half dozen constables”. The citizens can not even have a conversation with their doctor without the government being informed and told of the decisions and conversations.

I believe that these three topics are some of the building blocks of what a dystopian culture really is. These topics are the key concepts of what a dystopian future really could be, and I hope that I elaborated on some of them for you.