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[BeatResetsTheWorld]

So, many dystopian futures always foresaw this "big brother" entity, essentially government monitoring being taken to its extreme and the various effects it has on the governed population. One thing I've noticed, especially as of recently is that this paradigm, while still entirely possible (looking at you NSA), is being turned around. Instead of the government being the big watch dogs over our lives it seems to be our "peers".

Through social media a single person's voice now has an audience that far extends past their immediate vicinity or friend group. This can be seen through everything from tweets on social issues like #BlackLivesMatter and #CrimminWhileWhite to the continued criticism Ridley Scott has been getting for the white washing of Exodus (and in the past Shyamalan for Avatar)

Add to that the prominence of issues/groups/memes such as SJW (social justice warriors), the higher visibility of feminism and you have a society where social issues, the etiquette and the taboos, might be legally permissible but socially unacceptable.

It'd be interesting to see what the "extreme" version of what we're looking at now would look like. Where nearly all aspects of our lives have a "social network" parallel and instead of a mysterious big brother figure that judges us, it is the "crowd" who we're connected to or who we are able to connect with

 

[Ryouji Gunblade]

So long as the internet is not highly regulated by the government.

Spoiler

China.

 

[Who]

We can hashtag all we want but at the end of the day, they have about 12 internets worth of data on us, they torture when they want, they kill citizens when they want, the police are getting militarized, they have access to every phone call, text message, email, website we visit etc.

Big Brother is winning and there's nothing we can do about it :/