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The Specter Beyond Fiction: Cultural Pacification
Such dystopian futures involve "total indefinite cultural pacification," where humans become distracted, entertained, and manipulated into complacency. The elites would effectively leave the rest of society behind, enveloped in a spectacle of consumption and triviality. This utopian—or dystopian—vision raises profound fears about the erosion of democratic agency, individual autonomy, and social cohesion.