Dystopia

In The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler is depicting things that were issues or trends in the 1990's, but she is depicting them in a very exaggerated manner. Some of the issues she shows us are, drugs and drug addiction, fear of crime, rise of gated communities, and the growing distance between the rich and poor people. The world that Butler has created is a perfect example of a dystopia, but what caused this dystopia in the book? There was no war or anything of that sort, society simply fell apart over time.

It is possible that this could happen. Time is one of life's biggest dangers. Fear of time shows fear of change, and change isn't something that should be feared because it is a constant variable in life.

Our environment could easily change to be like Butlers. Look at the fall of the roman empire, there was really no war or any big, life changing events, the roman empire just kind of collapsed over time. Things in the past show us that anything is possible. The world could spiral down over time. Time is our biggest enemy, even if we don't see it as one.