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CMV: we wouldn’t know if we were living in a dystopian society

I recently re-read, Huxleys, Brave New World, it’s a really great book and is one of my favourites.
The thing that I find most fascinating about it is that although it’s very clear from an outside, perspectivethat, The society being described is a dystopian one, people  are actually happy and content, apart from a few dissidents., Not only that but they don’t want to know the truth because it conflicts with there conditioning.
It made me  realise that from an outside perspective, One which considers values like freedom and liberty, important,it’s, very clear to see but if you were to approach someone in that society and tell them they’re living in a dystopia, they wouldn’t believe you so how would we know if we are living in a dystopian society ourselves?
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Dystopian used in this fashion is a value judgement, not an objective one. The outside observer may look at your culture/civilization and call it dystopian because it conflicts with their values. 

If you want to look at markers of dystopia, you would have to point to policies or practices that lead to injustice or suffering and demonstrate them as injustices or as causing suffering. You can compile these together and say "there, these policies demonstrate we live in dystopia" but that is also your value judgement, there is no "knowing".