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* In ''[[Little Buddha]]'', the King attempts to invoke this when his son, the Prince Siddhartha decides to leave the palace to learn more about the world. The whole city seems to live in the same splendor the Prince does, it seems like he has no reason to leave his home... until Siddhartha sees a poor beggar wander into the crowd who is then hauled away by the guards. This revelation about the world is one of the things that causes Siddhartha to begin a journey that will ultimately lead him to become the Buddha.

* The 1936 film ''[[Things to Come]]'' takes "Everytown" (obviously London) from an alternate 1940 to a sort of proto-[[Mad Max|Bartertown]], challenged by the heroic black-clad aviators of Wings over the World—a council that eliminates things it objects to (such as private aircraft and "independent sovereign states"). Everytown finally morphs into a shining white-and-crystal Mary Suetopia where everyone wears [[Crystal Spires and Togas|white togas]], where a character says he has the right to speak and be heard ''because he's a Master Craftsman'', where an old man explains to his great-granddaughter about the bad old days when houses were built above ground and actually had windows—and where anyone who has any qualms about this is explicitly and specifically opposed to "Progress", thinks "Progress" is a bad thing, and wants to put a stop to it once and for all.

 

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