Oceania Case

Mazac 1

In our current society, the human race often enjoys the realms of living freely and the obligations of thinking or doing whatsoever they choose. This has not always been the case, however. Dictators have tried to create the perfect societies by using fear and brainwashing. In past times of history, thousands of people were murdered during reigns of power like those of Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler. After all, in their eyes these forceful and cruel ways of conforming was considered accurate steps forward towards maintaining and developing an ideal and "perfect" society. In the their minds, conforming everyone to the upmost genetic superiority would benefit the human race in the long run; and although this thought is raw and seemingly rooted from sheer evil, they weren't and aren't the only ones who have thought this way. Could something like the reign of Hitler be an upcoming event in the 21st century? And it might not be just genetic selection such as creating the Aryan race--what if it was control far more extensive, stemming into the areas of changing individuals' ways of thinking, what they do, watching what and where they go, or even above and beyond this? Fear, indeed, is the chokehold that keeps each of us asking ourselves these sorts of questions; and at a time of such industrialized and technological advances, the power of the ruling government could surely tighten it's noose upon us all.

The book 1984 by George Orwell seems to scream out towards us as an ominous prediction of what could possibly happen in future generations, and of what has almost reached the point of becoming a totalitarianism government in recent decades. In the book, the Government (Big Brother) has destroyed the lives of many people; yet they cannot do anything to fight back. The amount of power that Ingsoc has on its people is so incredibly potent that in nearly all aspects, the people in the society don't even posses the ability to think on their own. And although this doesn't seem to be happening currently, (Or is it?) there are some striking similarities towards those stated in the book that seem to show that our government may actually have the opportunity to have more control over our lives than what we may wish to believe. Could this lead to another Holocaust, the detriment of a person's mind by coercive persuasion, or the creation of a controlling fascist government? Hopefully not; however, there are a lot of questions to be asked.

In such a vast array of ways, and to a greater or lesser extent, mind control can be manipulated at will by outside sources, for example: government regulating. George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four focuses primarily on the use of mind control, both by the use of torture, or in the form of pervasive mind control by the use of a newly invented language--Newspeak--which is a constructed language designed to remove