Post by bailey on May 13, 2016 18:27:53 GMT
1. Are you willing to give up your privacy if constant government surveillance means living in a safer country? Does America seem willing to give up their privacy? Why?
I wouldn't be willing to give up my privacy, even if that would mean a safer country because it is my life and what I do personally doesn't need to be known to the government. I want to feel secure, but still have a life of privacy. It is a key thing in life. I don't think America is very willing because I believe they agree to what I have to say about a personal life. To do what you want without someone watching everything you do and monitoring it. It takes away our freedom and freedom in America is what we stand for. We aren't very up to the idea of having that taken away from us.
2. What are some of the ways that the government controls the people of Oceania? Is this level of government involvement okay if it means it serves a greater purpose?
Some of the ways that the government controls the people of Oceania is that they take away their freedom of privacy, all freedoms that America gives us. By putting telescreens in their homes, stores, down streets, cafeterias, and more. They aren't allowed to actually marry who they want to marry. They call it "Their duty to the party." for what they consider the reason to marry someone. These are just few examples and all are not okay even if it would mean a greater purpose somehow. They are to involved in peoples lives, except the proles obviously, but they find ways to distract them.
3. How does technology advance the Party's agenda in 1984?
Technology advances the Party's agenda by putting telescreens and hidden microphones all over the place to keep an eye on the people of Oceania, with the exception of Proles of course. It makes them have to have to watch them making it their agenda. It keeps them knowing of what the people of Oceania are doing and how the are doing it, to make sure they are doing what Big Brother and the government want them to do, and to make sure they are not committing crimes such as thought crime, which can be in-tailed to death. If committed.
4. Is technology today more or less advanced then it is in the book? Is this a good or bad thing?
Yes, technology today is more advanced then it is in the book. It's not either a good or bad thing it is both because it is good by how we can have the ability to expand the things we can discover, observe, and create. It can be bad by how we use it for what we use it for. Like, it could be bad if we use it how Big Brother and the Party use it with taking it into their own hands and using it to brainwash and control other people into doing what they want, by fear of not having peace or the ability to be free. They are repressed to feel one way about Big Brother and how he thinks and to do what he tells them and to hate on Goldstein. They chant sayings and even his name after the two minute hate in slow beats "BIG".
5. How does technology allow people to violate other people's freedoms? Is the loss of privacy partially self-imposed?
Technology has many ways of violating people's privacy by putting telescreens in homes and in the streets, to watch what others are doing all the time takes away their privacy. The smallest thing they do can be noticed, like how Winston and Julia have to lak in low voices, almost whispers and hardly move their lips so, it couldn't be noticed very much by the telescreens. The loss of privacy isn't self-imposed in this context because it's not their fault that that's what their government wants. They could stop it though, if they actually wanted to, but people are brainwashed into believing Big Brother they don't even know that it's wrong or life is bad. They didn't even notice that the chocolate ration went down and then they said that it went back up, when it actually didn't and everyone else thought it did. It just shows that Big Brother is the one "He who controls the past controls the future. He controls the present controls the past."
I wouldn't be willing to give up my privacy, even if that would mean a safer country because it is my life and what I do personally doesn't need to be known to the government. I want to feel secure, but still have a life of privacy. It is a key thing in life. I don't think America is very willing because I believe they agree to what I have to say about a personal life. To do what you want without someone watching everything you do and monitoring it. It takes away our freedom and freedom in America is what we stand for. We aren't very up to the idea of having that taken away from us.
2. What are some of the ways that the government controls the people of Oceania? Is this level of government involvement okay if it means it serves a greater purpose?
Some of the ways that the government controls the people of Oceania is that they take away their freedom of privacy, all freedoms that America gives us. By putting telescreens in their homes, stores, down streets, cafeterias, and more. They aren't allowed to actually marry who they want to marry. They call it "Their duty to the party." for what they consider the reason to marry someone. These are just few examples and all are not okay even if it would mean a greater purpose somehow. They are to involved in peoples lives, except the proles obviously, but they find ways to distract them.
3. How does technology advance the Party's agenda in 1984?
Technology advances the Party's agenda by putting telescreens and hidden microphones all over the place to keep an eye on the people of Oceania, with the exception of Proles of course. It makes them have to have to watch them making it their agenda. It keeps them knowing of what the people of Oceania are doing and how the are doing it, to make sure they are doing what Big Brother and the government want them to do, and to make sure they are not committing crimes such as thought crime, which can be in-tailed to death. If committed.
4. Is technology today more or less advanced then it is in the book? Is this a good or bad thing?
Yes, technology today is more advanced then it is in the book. It's not either a good or bad thing it is both because it is good by how we can have the ability to expand the things we can discover, observe, and create. It can be bad by how we use it for what we use it for. Like, it could be bad if we use it how Big Brother and the Party use it with taking it into their own hands and using it to brainwash and control other people into doing what they want, by fear of not having peace or the ability to be free. They are repressed to feel one way about Big Brother and how he thinks and to do what he tells them and to hate on Goldstein. They chant sayings and even his name after the two minute hate in slow beats "BIG".
5. How does technology allow people to violate other people's freedoms? Is the loss of privacy partially self-imposed?
Technology has many ways of violating people's privacy by putting telescreens in homes and in the streets, to watch what others are doing all the time takes away their privacy. The smallest thing they do can be noticed, like how Winston and Julia have to lak in low voices, almost whispers and hardly move their lips so, it couldn't be noticed very much by the telescreens. The loss of privacy isn't self-imposed in this context because it's not their fault that that's what their government wants. They could stop it though, if they actually wanted to, but people are brainwashed into believing Big Brother they don't even know that it's wrong or life is bad. They didn't even notice that the chocolate ration went down and then they said that it went back up, when it actually didn't and everyone else thought it did. It just shows that Big Brother is the one "He who controls the past controls the future. He controls the present controls the past."