This is related to a possible pet theory of mine, which postulates that to a large extent, utopia in quite a lot of conceptions (but not all) is fundamentally boring to us, and it’s not exciting to have all your problems solved, so it’s disliked disproportionately to dystopias. This especially is exacerbated by our need to remain the main character, and to have an interesting life.
It’s also why I think people don’t have the same aversion to written dystopias/apocalypses, because they contain conflict, and in particular inequalities large enough such that the main characters (which is a big driver of human behavior) to essentially run roughshod over the NPCs/non-main characters, so it’s a natural fit.
This is related to a possible pet theory of mine, which postulates that to a large extent, utopia in quite a lot of conceptions (but not all) is fundamentally boring to us, and it’s not exciting to have all your problems solved, so it’s disliked disproportionately to dystopias. This especially is exacerbated by our need to remain the main character, and to have an interesting life.
It’s also why I think people don’t have the same aversion to written dystopias/apocalypses, because they contain conflict, and in particular inequalities large enough such that the main characters (which is a big driver of human behavior) to essentially run roughshod over the NPCs/non-main characters, so it’s a natural fit.