Dystopia is a totalitarian society where specific groups of people are oppressed from some sort of elite group or from their own consciousness that results in a loss of humanity, freedom, and power, all of which gives the individual misery. Young’s Five Faces of Oppression described the characteristics of what Continue reading
Panopticism has been embedded into our society by the people themselves. The idea of Panopticism is that a subject knows they are being watched which forces them to act a certain way that is not chaotic or troublesome. When people go out, most choose to act in a particular fashion Continue reading
I like to keep the people and things around my life private. It’s difficult for me to give up my privacy if there is no reason for me to. Usually, one would say they give up privacy for freedom, security and protection. However, if I gave up my privacy for Continue reading
Democracy would have the least dystopian form of government. The main reason for this is because a democracy is based on the rule of the people. It runs on the wants of the people and their ideologies. If citizens have their own rights, they are able to protect themselves from Continue reading
Utopia is an individual’s perception of perfectness. Perfect doesn’t exist which is why we have the term utopia. If I were to create a place of utopia, it would be an equal society with no violence. Violence would be completely gone like the word never existed. Hatred would be less Continue reading
In my opinion, dystopia is a cruel place where individuals are suffering from discrimination, hatred, and poverty all under the root of evil. Everyone has different views of what a dystopia is to them as some can view wealth as a dystopia or vice versa. However, I believe dystopia is Continue reading
