We always talk about the dystopian future, but what do you call it when you are living through it? The day that Skynet becomes sentient and takes over is the beginning of the Dystopian Present. In fact, according to the definition – “an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one” – we could be living through it right now.
Dystopian Present
