Well, the three seashells is not something I'm looking forward to.
And... music has a long way to drop till we are playing only jingles from commercials.
Big brother scenario has been gathering steam for years but that is usually attributed to "1984" by George Orwell.
Some countries do have a 'seedy underground' but I don't think anyone is really eating rat yet.
We are still very dependent on internal combustion engines. The big oil companies have a hand in that. Keeping their cash cow going.
Prison reform has a very long way to go before stasis reprogramming is close to actual science.
Cash is still an important component in the economy.
Restaurants have a long way to fall before they are single corporation controlled.
Much of the world is still addicted to high fructose corn syrup and over-eating, binge-eating and recreational drug and alcohol use. People still like steak dinners too much to stop wanting meat in their diet.
Demolition Man depicts a closed society ran by a single entity. The world is still too chaotic and self-destructive for such a unified society to exist. Plus, even in the film it depicts a simultaneous utopian/dystopian dual society within the closed society system. The film is more of a fantasy film than a science fiction film.
The comparisons you mention are selective to a closed select group and are not even close to the world reality. Granted, many people are health conscious lately but people still have choice if they live in the free world.
I think you are looking through rose-coloured glasses, and US glasses, hihi.
The corn syrup thing is well known to be in everything in the USA, although I'm not sure if Americans themselves are aware of it and what it does.
My daughter never bought any of these things when she lived in the US. You can get normal, healthy food, but you have to look for it and know what you should avoid.
The "people will still eat steak dinners" is also more American scenario. Over here we don't eat steak very often, plus we eat much smaller pieces of meat, and smaller meals, than in the US.
And don't forget, if the government is FORCING vegetarian food you have no choice. It means there's going to be less and less products with meat and eventually meat will become a rare thing, and likely expensive.
We can buy what the government allows to be in the shelves, not what people want in the shelves. And the vegetarian movement is growing exponentially! We're getting close to the point that mentioning you eat meat is going to be very awkward.
And health food stuff has been around for decades btw. The Americanism of fast food, junk food, ready meals etc. is relatively new here and I think most cook healthy food. Fresh greens and so on, many go to the health food stores and supermarket sell loads of Bio foods too.
So it isn't 'some' that want healthy food, it's still quite normal here.
And the vegetarian forced upon us has nothing to do with health. Government doesn't give a rip about our health. It's about GM crap and spreading that over the world so no single plant or tree can reproduce naturally anymore.
GM ingredients are in many foods, and many plants and plant baulbs you buy have been GMed. Plants that used to come back and bloom are now all "once and that's it".
The same goes for this seemingly peaceful society. That is the WORST and the one we're closest to!
Social distancing, wearing face masks, working from home, only 1 visitor allowed, curfew from 9 pm till 5 am, etc. and breaking those rules gets you a serious fine.
All that chit is just brainwashing people to get used to being in a straight-jacket and doing what you're told, or else!
Once we're used to that -and most are by now- they can easily throw in more.
You seem to think it's a free world, ... really?
We can't do anything anymore, now they're going for our food too.
And here farmers will have to go, because of government rules concerning the nitrogen crisis. They say cattle farmers produce too much of it and they're basically bankrupting them now with even stricter rules than they already had.
Crop farmers will face the same fate, as they want the fields to build houses.
Farmers have become a nuisance to society. According to government that is.
So... WHAT free world?
We don't have a free world. The fact that government can take all that was normal away just like that says we do NOT have freedom at all. We have what the ones in power give us. Allow us is a better word.
None of these things that I talking about happening are 'what if' things, they ARE happening. In The Netherlands, but this is spoon-fed by the EU which is an extension of those in power that are behind the smoke screen in the US.
This is not fantasy anymore. This IS happening.
Combustion engines??? Here they are already implementing plans to get rid of ALL petrol/diesel cars. It will be mandatory at some point to have an electric car. They want to invest in another 2nd nuclear plant -which I'm totally 300% against.
They are forcing us to no longer cook and heat our homes with gas.
Oil companies have no say in this anymore.
Cash is NOT a big part of normal life, hasn't been for nearly 2 decades now. It's all done by pin pass in shops, petrol stations, online banking etc.
Our pin pass has become the norm shortly after 2000.
One restaurant / shop owning all is far-fetched... What do you think Amazon is doing?
It's putting ALL other businesses and shops out of business. It's cheaper, has more, every country now has its own Amazon. People will go for cheaper for the same item and not care to keep the other business going.
There's ya 'one shop owns all'! It already exists.
That movie isn't fantasy, it is scarily showing what is going on RIGHT NOW. 28 yrs after that movie came out...