My definition for dystopia is a society with an oppressive, leading authority that, through the direct or indirect permission of the people, imposes a depressing and powerless life upon them. I think that this is a good definition for two reasons. Firstly, the definition addresses the society as it is Continue reading
After reading the excerpt from Michael Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, I understand that panopticism is the idea that people behave better when they think they are being watched. I think this is a fair observation to make and I believe that we see elements of Continue reading
Whether you believe in it or not, climate change is impacting the world and all of its inhabitants. When we notice how warm it is in December, melting ice caps in our north and south poles, and long lasting droughts in places like California, we have nothing but climate change Continue reading
Here’s the thing. I like the idea behind the representative democracy that we have in place in the United States. I want to be able to vote and have a say in the leaders of the country and democracy allows us to do that. I also understand where the founding Continue reading
Let me just start by being honest… I have no idea what my utopia would look like. I have some crude ideas but I don’t really know how to implement any of these ideas such that no one is at any kind of disadvantage. For starters I would love to Continue reading
In Freud’s “Civilizations and Its Discontents” he lays out a long, drawn out argument that any form of government is ultimately repressive of human nature. Although Freud used a lot of twists and turns to finally reach his main argument, I was able to follow it and decide that everything Continue reading
I think that there are a lot of different ways we can look at the word dystopia. As we learned in our first lecture, the word dystopia literally translates to mean “bad place”. With this literal definition we must then think, what makes a place bad and who is it Continue reading
