The Importance Of A Dystopian Society
Why is it only when we learn about the history of failed endeavors at utopia, do we realize the importance of how our own society functions? When people take a look at dystopian societies and how life was like for the members, the greatness of how our living environment operates is revealed. We live in a world that is neither a utopia or dystopia, simply because it is the only viable alternative to a perfect society. Although not everyone is completely content, it happens to be extremely different from the dystopias of past and present. Yet, there are a select few similarities that define how we human beings think and fantasize, and those resemblances may just represent the limit of pleasing everyone, or what we still have to improve on. An
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It is the act of deliberately spreading information, ideas, or rumors to help or harm an institution. This may seem like a harmful act that is conducted everyday around us, but on a large scale, one person was able to take over multiple nations and gain power to exterminate millions of people. In order for the Nazis to validate what they were doing to innocent Jews, they had to convince everyone else that Jewish people were actually wrongdoing. Through controlling the media, such as newspapers and radio broadcasts, the government was able to brainwash citizens into believing falsified information. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “...[the] Jews were blamed for the loss of money after the war because many of them had occupations as bankers.” Despite the fact that the followers of Judaism did not cause the economical downfall, controlling media input and output allowed the authorities to curb the thinking of the citizens, to the point where nobody knew the true actions and intentions of the government and surrounding events. Since this action, in turn, led to the formation of a dystopia, it may seem quite questionable as to why propaganda is legal in the United States. In our modern day society, we are also allowed to influence the thoughts of other people by spreading information via media, such as the Internet. Our divergence from the dystopia is caused by who is responsible for the media in the society. The first amendment of the Constitution describes the freedom of press, which grants people the ability to publish opinions without censorship by the government. Every citizen of the U.S.A can state their opinions of the government and any other topic, which allows readers to get a broad view of how the society is operating. This is a complete opposite from Eliezer’s community, where the media itself is controlled by the government, to
It is the act of deliberately spreading information, ideas, or rumors to help or harm an institution. This may seem like a harmful act that is conducted everyday around us, but on a large scale, one person was able to take over multiple nations and gain power to exterminate millions of people. In order for the Nazis to validate what they were doing to innocent Jews, they had to convince everyone else that Jewish people were actually wrongdoing. Through controlling the media, such as newspapers and radio broadcasts, the government was able to brainwash citizens into believing falsified information. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “...[the] Jews were blamed for the loss of money after the war because many of them had occupations as bankers.” Despite the fact that the followers of Judaism did not cause the economical downfall, controlling media input and output allowed the authorities to curb the thinking of the citizens, to the point where nobody knew the true actions and intentions of the government and surrounding events. Since this action, in turn, led to the formation of a dystopia, it may seem quite questionable as to why propaganda is legal in the United States. In our modern day society, we are also allowed to influence the thoughts of other people by spreading information via media, such as the Internet. Our divergence from the dystopia is caused by who is responsible for the media in the society. The first amendment of the Constitution describes the freedom of press, which grants people the ability to publish opinions without censorship by the government. Every citizen of the U.S.A can state their opinions of the government and any other topic, which allows readers to get a broad view of how the society is operating. This is a complete opposite from Eliezer’s community, where the media itself is controlled by the government, to