Instead of a re-run of horror utopias, we have actual open horror dystopias now. Yay!

Unless you are writing from District 9 or Kabul or Caracas, you probably aren't living in an open horror dystopia.

All of which were created by capitalist imperialism, my point exactly.

The hunger games are a dystopia, even if the upper classes live a sweet life. You're just lucky enough to live in the Capitol of global capitalism.

Ascribing fundamentalist Islam in Afghanistan to capitalist imperialism makes as much sense to me as ascribing the Russo-Ukrainian war to Allah.

"You're just lucky enough to live in the Capitol of global capitalism."

This is by far the most fancy description of Ostrava that I have read.

History does not begin in 2001. There were a lot of invasions which devastated the region, and they went both ways. The Hindu Kush mountains are often described as "Hindu killer" in India, because of how many Indian slaves lost their lives when being forcibly transported over them.

Maybe the whole region would have been better off if it stayed Buddhist.

"Well, ask people in Kabul how they feel about Ostrava compared to where they live."

If "being visibly more developed than Kabul" is the same as "Capitol of global capitalism", then global capitalism did a good job lifting people out of poverty. Because at least a few billion people live in a way that, from Kabul, will look attractive. Even most of India is now developed well beyond Kabul standards.

As long as it's not a proprietary horror dystopia.