A dystopia to me now is a state of oppression that is caused by many factors that limits one’s own freedom and most importantly happiness. In the first week, my definition was a world where everyone is constantly under extreme pressure from their leaders who uses their authority to control Continue reading
fter watching the interview with Edward Snowden, write a blog post in which you critique Snowden’s claims about the state of privacy in the United States today. Be specific in your analysis and support your claims. Edward Snowden shares a very interesting detail on the state of privacy in the Continue reading
The reason why I believe that higher education is not a dystopia is simple. You can do whatever you want and still be successful without a college or graduate degree. I could say for example the story of Bill Gates who created Microsoft. He was a college dropout and worked Continue reading
I believe that communism would have the least dystopia compared to capitalism. You may find it hard to believe what I say is true but try to forget about all the negative things you heard about communism. Try to look from their point of view. In communism, the standard of Continue reading
My ability to work with comfort in a group depends on how I know my members. I usually know my members in real life because we have shared a common course together before, but since COVID it has become easier for me to work with other people because we are Continue reading
After reading Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, you will start to see how civilization starts to limit human nature. Before civilization came about, primitive man was free with no restriction on his instincts. When civilization came about, this was started to repress human nature in exchange for a Continue reading
While reading “The Five Faces of Oppression,” oppression is described to be a structural phenomenon that impacts a group. Today, the concept of a social group still exists in the United States. But what is a social group? A social group is a “collective of person differentiation from at least Continue reading
A dystopia is a world where everyone is constantly under extreme pressure from their leaders who uses their authority to control every action of their citizens. In that world, I believe that a dystopian society is where the citizen are robbed of their free will and are forced to live Continue reading
