A Note on these Dystopian Ideas

As a growing young boy, I encountered dystopian ideas in Young Adult fiction like The Hunger Games and Divergent. These books I came to know through the commercial world. Later, school taught me about Huxley and Orwell, and these showed a new type of dystopian fiction to my life. The headiness of it all seemed jumbled to me, and I was not sure that the "social commentary" could justify the contrived-ness of the storytelling (i.e. the leaving out of things, the making up of things, the "chosenness" of what happens by the author). 

Now, I realize that instead of imagining the Dystopia as an objective, alternate world which is supposed to comment on the real one, it is more fun to look at them as a culmination of an experience in this world--coming out from, rather than being imposed on. In this vein, many interesting opportunities open up for interpretation and for application to real life. In 2023, I read Huxley's The Island, and this confirmed it for me that the heart of the Dystopian tale lies in the real-life experience generating it.