{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Amber Bird | Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog","author_name":"amber","author_url":"https:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"The Road to Dystopia - Amber Bird | Blog","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"idSJD346oV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/19\/the-road-to-dystopia\/\">The Road to Dystopia<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/19\/the-road-to-dystopia\/embed\/#?secret=idSJD346oV\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Road to Dystopia&#8221; &#8212; Amber Bird | Blog\" data-secret=\"idSJD346oV\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"If a utopia is a society\/world where everybody gets to be happy and free, a dystopia is a society\/world where nobody (except the person or tiny group of people at the top) gets to be truly happy and free. Maybe we all spend a few years in a dystopia&#8230; A lot of times, an apocalyptic event is a great excuse for some person or group to set up their dystopia. The founders of dystopic societies aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t picky, either. Any apocalypse they have survived and that has put them into a position to enact their bad ideas will do. Sometimes, the post-apocalyptic dystopic society is the result of the fact that humans can be really stupid, so they think they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re setting up a utopia and, oh, never mind&#8230;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all horrible now. A lot of the dystopias we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen lately in popular books (and the films based on them) are post-apocalyptic. Which, sure, I get. An apocalypse wipes the slate clean (and, hey, as a writer I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hate the apparent freedom from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nobody would do that\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that comes from a society that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been wiped like that), and makes room for big and obvious changes. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not here to hate on [&hellip;]","thumbnail_url":"http:\/\/www.amberbird.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/635837436478554920911253008_Mean-Girls-Style-1024x536.jpg"}