vendredi 22 septembre 2017

Handmaid's tale and ISIS

(Not in history and arts as also touching current events)

Have read and seen a bit about the series Handmaid's tale.

Apparently some people are of the opinion, that it shows a remotely realistic dystopia.

That leaves me my head scratching; regarding classic dystopias 1984 and Brave New World, they both seem far more realistic; after all for example Stalinism or what is going on in North Korea has/das to some extent decent parallels to 1984 (for example manipulation of history by erasing people from photos etc.; and of course a brutal thought-control police, though a bit shy in efficiency compared to the 1984 version).

Handmaid's tale is just so off.


Exacpt for one thing:
ISIS.

The society they try to build has some parallels, e.g. women as property, hanging gays, etc. all based upon quoting some scripture.

Therefore if someone would argue that except for basing the tyranny on Christianity Handmaid's tale is in the sense realistic, that it portrays a unfortunately quite real ISIS clone tyranny, ok, fits somewhat.

But that leads me to three questions:

1. What happens in the mind of people who actually consider such dystopia based on Christianity to be somewhat realistic?

I cannot fathom how they can miss:
a) there is no christian ISIS and has not been for at least 200 years.
b) there are no christian thinker remotely going in such a direction
c) the actual ISIS is not christian

2. Why not a series about ISIS takeover of a society?

That then unfortunately would be a "plausible" dystopia aka one actually to some extent currently or at least just a few years ago happening.

Of course, one could not base it in the US; but for example Egypt (ISIS is trying hard there); or Lybia; or many other countries (Saudia-Arabia maybe not, cause some viewers might have difficulties to notice the differences between today Saudi-Arabia and one after an ISIS-takeover).

3. Could it be, that the more murderous islamist get, the more some people start to fear radical christians, because not having the same fear about radical christians as about murderous islamist would be islamophobic?


via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/2wEzTb6

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