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I have to write these journal logs for english, and anyways I wrote this one entry and found it kinda interesting. If you have read the book Utopia you will know where I am coming from.
The first comparison I would like to make has to do with Utopia and today’s society. Limiting the individual is not only something Utopian society found necessary. I also find the same loss of individuality in western culture. The media has become such a huge factor in the lives of people in our day and age, that are own individuality and thoughts are influenced more with media and less with basic instincts. Young girls open magazines and see pictures of thin models telling them to wear designer clothes. If they listen to this message, isn’t their own opinions and personality somehow lost? This reminds of Utopia in the fact that society is instructed to only be happy, to only be cheerful and never be sad or feel any pain. This is just the same as the media influencing are minds. The government of Utopia has worked their ways of limiting emotions so much that people forget about negativity. I suppose this sounds like the ideal, but in the end humans are not made to only be joyful, this is not humane nature. And those young girls influenced by those magazines are made to think that they are fat and ugly and far from perfect. If we took away that media influence do you believe people would still be as self-conscious?
The first comparison I would like to make has to do with Utopia and today’s society. Limiting the individual is not only something Utopian society found necessary. I also find the same loss of individuality in western culture. The media has become such a huge factor in the lives of people in our day and age, that are own individuality and thoughts are influenced more with media and less with basic instincts. Young girls open magazines and see pictures of thin models telling them to wear designer clothes. If they listen to this message, isn’t their own opinions and personality somehow lost? This reminds of Utopia in the fact that society is instructed to only be happy, to only be cheerful and never be sad or feel any pain. This is just the same as the media influencing are minds. The government of Utopia has worked their ways of limiting emotions so much that people forget about negativity. I suppose this sounds like the ideal, but in the end humans are not made to only be joyful, this is not humane nature. And those young girls influenced by those magazines are made to think that they are fat and ugly and far from perfect. If we took away that media influence do you believe people would still be as self-conscious?