Animal Farm, Brave New World, Idiocracy, And The Matrix

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Throughout humanity’s history its main goal is to and always has been to improve the quality of life. To the point, where it could hopefully become a blissful utopia. However, as many pieces of media demonstrates the process of doing so has many potential dangers. Lurking in the greed of our society. The four main stories that will be discussed are Animal Farm, Brave New World, Idiocracy, and The Matrix. Each of which sends a message from their authors of possible doomed timelines that could occur.

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