Tuesday, April 29, 2008

All these post must now be catalouging my adventures in Satire Class

All I can think of is the book “The Giver”. A utopian society, supposedly in the future, is blissfully devoid of emotion or lust all the way through life. A nondescript old-wise man deemed “The Giver” takes in one boy to be tutored in the ways of human emotion. Hilarity ensues. I mistake this book for another I had read called “A Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. Too similar too recap but I like this one more, possible cause I’m reading it the first time.
Not being able to choose you emotions is what strikes this connecting line to the “The Giver”. For some reason I hold firm that there is more of a connection there than what I initially can find. Perhaps there is a fascination with choice. Do we, in the universe and dimension we inhibit choose are emotions? It seems some of us control those pesky emotion better than most but what it if we were made the choice to choose whether we could outright decry something for a promise of a better tomorrow…if we could not choose? (I just befuddle myself. I’ll clear it up at the bottom)1
The constant parade of propaganda eerily takes a future-looking nod to the advertisements of today, especially the ones out in the street (and especially New York). I easily imagine if current-day viral marketing for a movie of Nineteen-Eighty-Four would have [WAR IS PEACE] [FREEDOM IS SLAVERY] [IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH] as banners on those tall buildings.

1 When do you think society made the choice to go down the path that was taken in Nineteen-Eighty-Four?

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