We should fear the ideas we have about society we have right now as in future they may be what divides us. Ideas we have about our modern society and the things within it create our attitudes, which are our feelings towards certain ideas or issues, so our attitudes are a manifestation of the ideas and values we have as well. William Ralph Inge once said “the aim of education is the knowledge not for facts but of values.” Because it is the values we are taught, along with the ideas which they are derived form that shape our attitudes in life, what we hold dear and what we find important. Although some of these ideas we find as significant as a society, such as the importance of family that they should look after one another and communicate to
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John F. Kennedy said “conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth” as when we conform, we let society think for us, but when you think for yourself, you have your own opinion and that is what makes you, you. We see how the media brainwashes society in Fahrenheit 451 by attacking them with a constant media blitz. From seashell thimbles, to over the top parlour walls, there is just so much information for their brain to take in, too much to handle. So much so, that it pushes out your own thoughts and replaces them with the ones the media wanted them to have, no unique thoughts, ideas or opinions. Essentially everyone was mad the same, there is no freedom if you can think for yourself, there is no growth. This oppression however does give rise to renegades who subvert like Clarisse McClellan and eventually Montag, they are alienated bye society as they are different though, turned on so much so for having their own idea and thoughts that society sought to destroy them, as they did when they killed Clarisse when she was out for a walk and Montag after he rebelled and burned Captain Beatty, having to flee from mechanical dogs he left the city. In Gattaca the ‘faith born’ ‘invalids’ as in essence born as non-conformists, as discriminations against race, gender, sex or religion is no more in this dystopian world. The only difference discriminated upon in society is if you are genetically enhanced, one who conforms to society’s advancing ways or if you are ‘invalid’ like us in today’s society, born with everything left up to chance. Essentially, the faiths born were discriminated upon for no other reason than being themselves, for being different. It was a decision their parents whom were reluctant to advancing technologies who kept their different, unique,
John F. Kennedy said “conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth” as when we conform, we let society think for us, but when you think for yourself, you have your own opinion and that is what makes you, you. We see how the media brainwashes society in Fahrenheit 451 by attacking them with a constant media blitz. From seashell thimbles, to over the top parlour walls, there is just so much information for their brain to take in, too much to handle. So much so, that it pushes out your own thoughts and replaces them with the ones the media wanted them to have, no unique thoughts, ideas or opinions. Essentially everyone was mad the same, there is no freedom if you can think for yourself, there is no growth. This oppression however does give rise to renegades who subvert like Clarisse McClellan and eventually Montag, they are alienated bye society as they are different though, turned on so much so for having their own idea and thoughts that society sought to destroy them, as they did when they killed Clarisse when she was out for a walk and Montag after he rebelled and burned Captain Beatty, having to flee from mechanical dogs he left the city. In Gattaca the ‘faith born’ ‘invalids’ as in essence born as non-conformists, as discriminations against race, gender, sex or religion is no more in this dystopian world. The only difference discriminated upon in society is if you are genetically enhanced, one who conforms to society’s advancing ways or if you are ‘invalid’ like us in today’s society, born with everything left up to chance. Essentially, the faiths born were discriminated upon for no other reason than being themselves, for being different. It was a decision their parents whom were reluctant to advancing technologies who kept their different, unique,