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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) is (loosely) based on that and also fits the dystopia description.

It's not clear to me that this form of dystopia is really all that distinct from the Huxleyan one-- the virtuality is just a more effective soma.



"Loosely", ha. I would argue only thing they share is the one word in the title.

It's a great book. It's interesting (in the context of this discussion) that it's a satiric dystopia in which the main character spends most of the book in a drug-induced dream about being in a future utopia that turns out to be a Huxleyian dystopia that's even worse than the present day.


How on earth could I have completely missed this movie. I just watched it, and as movies go, it was very good.


The Huxleyan one is apathetic. The Lem version is illusory.




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