Quite recently, the literary world community was surprised by the emergence of a 23-year-old young woman, author of a dystopian novel – Tahereh Mafi and her first book, Shatter Me. The young woman notes: “The new citizens of our world will be reduced to being only numbers, easily interchangeable, easily removable, easily destroyed in the event of disobedience. We have lost our humanity. What made her so famous in such a short time is that her observations resemble the predictions of two famous authors of dystopian novels: George Orwell with his book 1984 and Aldous Huxley with his book Brave New World. Both found their place not only in the literary world, but also in the political and psychological fields, because their theories about the future of humanity were largely based on realistic threats. Their view, however exaggerated and far-fetched, has observable implications in the present. Martin Seligman, president of the American Psychological Association, proposes to partially address some of these implications through his theory of “positive psychology.” His approach could prove useful in dealing with threats such as the numbing of the human mind, emotional detachment from sexual relationships, the death of family values ​​and detachment from the past, all due in large measure to technological developments of the new world. An important problem, the one that triggered all the others, is the numbing of human character by institutions and by technology. This tendency is widely discussed by Orwell. In his novel, a new language exists and its main objective is to “reduce the field of thought”. Huxley also incorporates it into his discussion of the importance of schools in the New World – institution...... middle of paper ......r the better and emphasizing the individual. The “quest for meaning” that he describes as a form of life aims to find something greater than oneself to attach oneself to. According to Seligman, it is the ultimate form of satisfaction. Once the individual prevails over the institution, dark predictions about the future will begin to fade and personal expression will triumph, thus ending the decline of civilization. Works Cited Lombardi, Esther. “Quotes from '1984'.” About.com. Internet. December 13, 2011. .Mafi, Tahereh. “Break Me Quotes”. Happy reading. Internet. December 13, 2011. .Seligman, Martin. “Eudaemonia, the good life”. Edge The third culture. Internet. December 13, 2011. < http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/seligman04/seligman_index.html>.