Blogpost 3: Dystopia

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Basically, at first, I didn't know what dystopia is until someone mentioned it to me and googled it and when I saw the meaning and looked for images the first thing that came to my mind is what happened to the earth at Wall-E movie. As you can see, dystopia is the opposite of utopia. Dystopia was "utopia" gone wrong. It's basically a creepy, unpleasant, filthy, dangerous and abandoned world, society, state or community.

Moving on, according to an article from Huy Nguyen entitled "WALL-E: For All Ages, For the Ages" from cinemablography.org it says that technology can be a friend or a foe, a foe because too much dependence to technology can lead to a dystopian world or state like what we see in Wall-E. You see, the only purpose of transferring humans to the Axiom temporarily is to clean the earth and return there immediately, but the humans became so dependent to the Axiom where they don't have to attend work, they have an educational system, and the food are free, basically, they are living an ideal environment.

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As the article says, "However, an over-reliance on technology could lead to a dystopian society like the one depicted in WALL-E, where humans essentially turn into robots while robots like WALL-E and EVE actually have more humanistic qualities than the humans themselves."  which is true because in the end it turned that when Auto saw the plant he wanted to have it, either destroy or throw it, he wanted humans to stay forever in the Axiom. Wall-E and EVE made a decision to save the earth which is more like humans for showing care for the earth while the humans at the Axiom became robots, slaves by their own desires while the earth suffers.

In summation, the benefits of the Axiom society by far outweigh the consequences. While the Axiom became Utopia, the Earth which is the original or where the human-beings belong became a Dystopian world.

Moving on, according to another article from Katalina Watt entitled  "Studies in Dystopia: WALL-E" from seenthefuture's blog it says that Axiom being a Utopian world for humans made them forget about what's happening to earth, they just have to stay to Axiom temporarily and because they don't even have to walk or cook something to eat, not to worry about their jobs, they became lazy and unable to walk properly because basically they became the slaves of too much reliance to technology.

As the article says, "When EVE returns the plant to the Captain, he learns the Axiom is supposed to leap straight back to Earth to let humanity settle back there, because life can be cultivated again." it's the proof for the humans in Axiom to stay there temporarily but the past officials made a decision to just stay there because they were blinded by the benefits of technology without even peeking at the consequences it could lead.

Therefore, Axiom became a Utopian world because everything was free, ideal environment for lazy people or for people who was blinded or for people who took the advantage of technology, a Utopian world where everybody wanted to move for its nearly perfect qualities but then the consequence of this is the destruction of the Earth or the transformation of the Earth to be a Dystopian world.