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So for this third and final video this week, I'm going to be asking you some questions that you can

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practice giving answers. These questions are going to be a bit more advanced, a bit abstract,

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so what I'll do is I will ask the question. After I ask the question, please pause the video and

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answer yourself out loud to practice giving that answer and practice expanding on it, and then you

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can play the video and hear my answer as an example. So the first question is, what is one

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of the most important problems facing society right now and why? Pause the video. So for me,

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I believe that an unequal distribution of wealth is one of the most important or biggest problems

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facing us as a society today because it leads to so many other issues. There are so many issues

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that branch off of it you know because wealth is so unequally distributed we have poverty we have

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homelessness in our society there's world hunger and malnutrition um and you just have a lot of

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unfairness that comes from some people having a lot of money and some people having very very

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little money not enough to even really survive um and that is the reason that i think it is the

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most, one of the most important issues facing us as a society today, it branches off into a lot of

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other issues. That's my answer, but some other issues that you could have said, some other

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examples could be racism, you could say homophobia is one of the biggest issues, maybe greed,

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Islamophobia, crime, sexism, violence, you know, those aren't, that's by no means a comprehensive

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list, but it could be. You could have answered one of those or maybe something else if you came up

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with it. Question number two, is creating a utopian society possible? Why or why not? I do not think

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personally that it is possible to create a utopian society. I believe that human beings inherently

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have positive and negative qualities. So I think human beings, most human beings inherently

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are capable of love. They're capable of compassion and care. I also think that human beings have

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capabilities to be greedy, to be hateful, to be biased. And I don't think that there's a way

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to get rid of all of the bad and keep all of the good. I think that if you were to get rid of all

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of the bad, you would also be taking away some of the good if it were just a quick fix. So I don't

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think it's possible right now to just snap your fingers and have a utopian society, but I do think

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that there is hope. I'm hopeful that as a society we can slowly improve and move towards a better,

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more just, more fair, and more equal society for everyone. Question number three, why do you think

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dystopias are such a popular genre. So for me, I think that dystopian societies or elements of

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dystopian societies that are portrayed in literature, film, series, I think that these

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elements are something that people fear in a really base level. You know, a lot of dystopias

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have themes of losing control losing things that make us uniquely human in some ways a loss of

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humanity and I think that there's something there's this morbid curiosity in some people

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where they want to know more about that they want to read about these situations I certainly want

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to read about these situations and I also think that the genre of dystopian fiction allows us

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in a really unique way to critique the failings of our society. You know, it allows us to have

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sort of a thought experiment to say like, well, I wonder what would happen if we got rid of greed?

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What else would we have to give up? And I think that's interesting. All right, so that's it for

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my videos this week. I hope that you all have enjoyed this topic and I would love to hear

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any of your answers. If you have a favorite dystopian novel or series that you would like

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to recommend me. I would love any recommendations. I hope that you're all doing well and I look

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forward to making some videos for you next week. Bye!