{"id":131568,"date":"2016-09-18T22:03:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/dealing-with-dystopias-and-revolutions-against-them.html"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:03:29","slug":"dealing-with-dystopias-and-revolutions-against-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/dealing-with-dystopias-and-revolutions-against-them.html","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Dystopias and Revolutions Against Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s a common trope in fiction &#8212; and is usually handled as well and in as detailed and realistic a fashion as any other human activity. Here are a few things to think about if you&#39;re going to have a glorious revolution in your fictional world.<\/p>\n<p>(Add this to Still More Reasons <i>Hunger Games<\/i> Was Goofy.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/10-lessons-from-real-life-revolutions-that-fictional-dy-1634087647'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/cCzskVb9URjd-wfNX1APnppGDTOuiXT6qrU4aiFqPFpEbsAHXm5wDlWfzDzYiVMqjxsuJeSbuEe_SX-x9w_qdCeTbL0cB_bqdnPxfkwm4aHj0r7Oj_QVvlChm2NrZ-x3GiDwB7RjhLUpTvFYtBI-z6c63yXSChDDMl9KAY8ukD19DQalLKWkSF7Y3d7Lo6-6dODsIvKtYn_P=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/10-lessons-from-real-life-revolutions-that-fictional-dy-1634087647'>10 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias Ignore<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s genre books are full of future dystopias, which only have one weakness: teenagers. And everybody knows that most dystopias are kind of contrived. But here are 10 lessons from real-life rebellions against repressive regimes, that we wish the creators of fictional dystopias would pay attention to.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/R53KUucz5wN'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s a common trope in fiction &#8212; and is usually handled as well and in as detailed and realistic a fashion as any other human activity. Here are a few things to think about if you&#39;re going to have a glorious revolution in your fictional world. (Add this to Still More Reasons Hunger Games Was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/dealing-with-dystopias-and-revolutions-against-them.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dealing with Dystopias and Revolutions Against Them&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26884,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/a-very-short-guide-to-fictional-fighting-styles.html","url_meta":{"origin":131568,"position":0},"title":"A Very Short Guide to Fictional Fighting Styles","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Mar-12 1:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I must confess, I have a great desire to learn a fighting style that includes using a cane. 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