A Shanghai Writer Who Seemingly Predicted It All For All of Us Becomes Super-Relevant for his Hometown Once Again – Ballard’s Dystopian Visions….

‘Control your soul’s desire for freedom’ – Shanghai Party drone.           
‘In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom’ Shanghai-born JG Ballard
When a city and a writer were eternally made for each other!

Shanghai-born Ballard is so instructive as to how you get to sealed apartment blocks ridiculously called silly names like ‘Rich Paradise’ or ‘Evergreen Forest’ and drones saying ‘control the soul’s desire for freedom’ repeatedly across the city. He was so far ahead of us all and it came from growing up on Xinhua Lu…a little audio for the locked down…

Ballardian Dystopias in Wartime Shanghai – JG Ballard’s Hidden Shanghai