I watch Demolition Man for the first time the other night. I always heard people say it predicts our current time and I definitely see that. The fines for profanity were funny, but hate speech laws are worse than that. Also the banning of meat and and salt
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Few years ago on a polish subreddit users had a argument about dystopian books (which was locked of course, because one guy as an example of doublethink mentioned how everyone knows a guy in a dress is a guy but can't say it out loud).
I had an argument with a mod about Brave New World and provided few examples about how people today are slaves to dopamine and lack any kind of self-restraint. Of course I was downvoted to oblivion, but what made me angry was not the dislikes and overall rudeness of NPCs towards me, but the idiotic take from the moderator:
"Brave New World is a book about everyone being happy and one idiot having a problem with it"
I fucking hate those people