I’ve heard a lot of Gen Z people confuse dystopian and utopian. Usually I don’t care about “correct” language at all, I’d even argue languages that change are alive and changes are often invisible to those with rigid or discriminatory thinking. In this case the confusion seems almost deliberate or directional as in having an origin in some media where it is confused heavily though.
I never would “correct” a person IRL about this, but I am really confused how it is possible that several people can make the exact same error. Are the assigned meanings to those words changing?
Hey… let’s keep it civil. This is not a generation war post.
Edit: who am I kidding, you’re right. My comment was spiteful. I do apologize.
And I am not trying to besmirch any person or generation, but I do think that there is a correlation between the amount of literature the “older people” of today were exposed to during their youth compared to those that you refer to by saying “young people”. Since you didn’t specify a demographic, I am not touching on any socioeconomic circumstances and/or cultural factors that may or may not lead to young people not being able to distinguish between utopia and dystopia.