While popular movies and TV shows paint a dystopian future full of surreal landscapes, totalitarian governments, and post-apocalyptic scenes, it is more likely to consist of unappealing and mundane scenarios. In fact, once you look past the meticulously curated universe of social media, it may seem we’re already living in it. Senseless ads, broken machines, canned dinners, dreary headlines — we’re constantly bombarded with chilling reminders of the “boring dystopia” we find ourselves in.
While it may be hard to wrap your head around this phenomenon at first, you gradually get the hang of it. And then start seeing it everywhere you look. Here’s where the prominent corner of Reddit called ‘A Boring Dystopia’ enters the picture. “A subreddit for chronicling how Advanced Capitalist Society is not only dystopic but also incredibly boring,” as the moderators describe.
When you think of it, the group seems to be the unofficial mirror of our society by sharing the most upsetting, ridiculous, and all too real examples of modern-day dystopia that prove something’s not quite right with this world. Below, we wrapped up the newest batch of their posts to give you a reality check and hopefully inspire you to fix the near future. So continue scrolling and upvote as you go!
Psst! When you’re done with this list, be sure to check out Bored Panda’s earlier pieces full of dystopian madness right here, here, and here.
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#1 Welcome To America
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#2 Explained Nice And Simple
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#3 And Yet They Manage Our Life
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#4 Is This Signs Of A Healthy Economy?
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#5 Tax The Churches
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#6 And The Cycle Continues
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#7 ‘Bout Sums It Up
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#8 From Mad Magazine, 1968
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#9 Who Else?
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#10 Maybe We Laugh So We Don’t Cry. Or Rage
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#11 Lock Up The Poor
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#12 Indeed
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#13 How Much Have You Contributed To The Modern Day Feudal System?
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#14 America Is The Best Country In The World!
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#15 Enjoy Another Recession And Global Warming Child
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#16 When Your Boss Is A Robot
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#17 Maximum Price, Minimum Quality, Ideal Suffering Of The Peasants
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#18 Interesting
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#19 We Need To Stop And Reverse The Fingers
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#20 You’re Supposed To Like Working
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#21 Quality Healthcare
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#22 I Wouldn’t Be Able To Afford A House Anyway, But Might Give A Try?
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#23 He Really Just Came Out And Said It
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#24 Can We All Agree It’s Time To Tax Churches?
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#25 Can You See It?
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#26 2meirl4meirl
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#27 Ah Yes, The American Healthcare System™
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#28 Organize And Join A Union
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#29 “The Circumstances”
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#30 Can’t Have Anything
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#31 Small Town Texas Politician Shares The Real Reason Police Are Armed
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#32 A Grim Reality Sets In
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#33 A Boring Police State Dystopia
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#34 Daaamn, What A Good Ideea
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#35 USA Be Like
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