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Now then, let’s try something in a slightly different vein. Thus far the  dystopias we’ve examined are some of the more tried and true definitions, those in which the experience is grounded in the familiar;  food,  shelter, politics,  war,  social unrest,  class inequality. These things we can all relate to in a personal, visceral form (to a greater or lesser degree). Tonight we’ll throw some new material in. Noein takes many of the the traditional tropes you might expect from standard anime fare  but grows on them by presupposing one fundamental idea. That our construction of Time is relative and subjective. Oh yes. It’s a treatment of Quantum Mechanics in anime form.

What we’re looking at is the idea of alientation (in any manner) as it relates to the perception of dystopia, i.e a society undesirable to live in. Naturally, what could be more alienating than to be a living superposition in a quantum universe?

Actually, I’m rather growing to like Mill‘s alternate term for dystopians: cacotopians. The base of cacophony illustrates very succinctly the character of the society and people he was attempting to describe.

When you experience alienation; as in, for instance, traveling outside one’s own culture (or in my case, The South) what you find is the cacophony of undefined behaviors. Those which you cannot place and seem to hold no relevance for you. This applies of course to those you experience, and your own in light of the discrepancy. This is both perspective and dystopia.

Which is not to say that a dystopia as such can’t be beneficial.

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