Willing acceptance of our eventual fate of turning into ash while being born in a generation that has all the capacity for increasing lifespan is what's dystopian.
Thinking intelligent life should continue in its current state of being mostly meat flesh bags until the sun boils our ancestors is dystopian.
Status quo, not trying to be special, not trying to reach for the stars with our limited time. That's not just dystopian, it's Kafkaesque. We may as well be in cockroach bodies waiting for the universe to crush us, because thats what not looking up from the dirt gets us.
Curiosity, wonder, and unbounded dreams are among the best qualities of human life. They transcend our weak and dying bodies and our mortal lifetimes.
