Demolition Man and Dystopian Literature

Demolition Man deserves a place alongside the literary dystopian fiction of the 20th Century. While lacking the grittiness of 1984 or the deep look at its society of Brave New World, it nevertheless manages to capture the shared themes of those works and others, and in so doing show us some of the mechanisms of tyranny in our own world.

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00:00 Intro
00:48 Plot Summary
02:18 Brave New Worlds
03:50 Cocteau
04:28 Language and Culture
05:50 What Would You Choose?
08:25 The Dispossessed
10:15 Woman on the Edge of Time
12:20 Culture and Family
13:30 Tacos, Pizza, and Stalin
15:45 The Technocrat Knows