The problem with Utopia, though it's certainly a nice thought, is that its not possible and it puts false dreams into gullible people's heads. It can lead innocent people to be taken advantage of by sinister people which has happened all too often on this planet, witness Hitler and the Nazi movement or Jim Jones and his mass Kool-Aid suicide in Guyana.

So what then is the opposite of someone that believes in fantasy land, the opposite of one who believes that Utopia is a real possibility here on Earth? Of course there's existentialism, which basically means existence above essence, or I think therefore I am, but as defined by philosophers from Descartes to Doestoyevski to Nietszche and Camus, existentialism is more about the reality of the self. It is the belief in the concrete reality of the here and now, and nothing beyond that. No, the opposite of a Utopian is a dystopian. A dystopian is a person who not only believes that perfection on Earth is unattainable, but that the exact opposite, a controlling force that will ruin civilization is at hand, pulling strings, destroying what is good in society. Dystopians have received their direction through the last century or so from a handful of fiction writers that described in great detail future civilizations that were indeed negative Utopias'. Most of these books are quite famous, very popular, and yet were quite literary in content, while leaning hard towards the science fiction genre. Dystopians largely follow George Orwell, and in fact are also called Orwellian, after the book that Orwell wrote called 1984, wherein a master society was led through life by a mysterious government force known as big brother that always watched and controlled its citizens. Orwell wasn't the only writer to explore Dystopians beliefs, not at all. Aldous Huxley, scientist and author of the Doors Of Perception, wrote very dystopian piece of fiction called Brave New World, wherein again citizens were controlled by an overbearing government, split into sects based on brain power, bred without love or emotion and controlled by a euphoric drug called Soma. In Huxley's thesis, however, there was a rogue element outside the dystopians society, where savages lived that actually copulated and fell in and out of love. There have been plenty others as well, most notably Ray Bradbury's endeavors in Fahrenheit 451, wherein reading and writing of books became an illegal offense and the government took to burning books and destroying offenders. Another good tale was written by Isaac Asimov in his I robot trilogy, wherein robots and computers attempt to take over a desensitized planet that is led by its corporations. There have even been movies, television shows, and series with dystopian themes. Soylent Green with Charleton Heston was a choice film based on the fact that once old, people were reused and turned into food to keep the human race going. Logan's Run with a young Farrah Fawcett was a network series based on the idea that due to overcrowding, at the ripe old age of thirty you were deemed old, useless, and eradicated to make room for youth.