The American author Ally Condie once said, “The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own” (Condie). The post-apocalyptic, totalitarian nation of Panem in The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is one such future world. This novel follows the story of a girl named Katniss Everdeen. Katniss is a female tribute for the Hunger Games, which is an annual death-match between twenty-four tributes. This brutal fight is televised as a reality show and requires viewing from every citizen of Panem. The Hunger Games only end when one final tribute stands and the other twenty-three tributes’ bodies have been collected. Throughout the narrative, the audience sees the actions
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Google has reported that “In the last half of 2011, U.S. agencies asked Google to remove 6,192 individual pieces of content from its search results, blog posts or archives of online videos… [including] a blog that ‘allegedly defamed a law enforcement official in a personal capacity’” (Sutter). In other words, the United States asked Google to keep these pieces of information away from American society because they felt that the information is too sensitive for anyone to know. In addition to this, when Raymond Davis, a CIA spy in Pakistan, shot and killed two violent Pakistanis, the Obama administration decided that they would “stonewall [refuse to answer the questions of] the Pakistanis… The strategy meant that American officials, from top to bottom, had to dissemble [conceal one’s true motives] both in public and in private about what exactly Davis had been doing in the country” (Mazzetti MM30). This means high-ranking officials of the U.S. government were forced to censor themselves about why Davis was in Pakistan in order to fool both the Pakistani and the general American populace only in order to justify Davis’s right to release from jail. If the U.S. leaders are inclined to lie to the world in order to save face in this manner, then dystopia will permeate into U.S. culture, much like it did in
Google has reported that “In the last half of 2011, U.S. agencies asked Google to remove 6,192 individual pieces of content from its search results, blog posts or archives of online videos… [including] a blog that ‘allegedly defamed a law enforcement official in a personal capacity’” (Sutter). In other words, the United States asked Google to keep these pieces of information away from American society because they felt that the information is too sensitive for anyone to know. In addition to this, when Raymond Davis, a CIA spy in Pakistan, shot and killed two violent Pakistanis, the Obama administration decided that they would “stonewall [refuse to answer the questions of] the Pakistanis… The strategy meant that American officials, from top to bottom, had to dissemble [conceal one’s true motives] both in public and in private about what exactly Davis had been doing in the country” (Mazzetti MM30). This means high-ranking officials of the U.S. government were forced to censor themselves about why Davis was in Pakistan in order to fool both the Pakistani and the general American populace only in order to justify Davis’s right to release from jail. If the U.S. leaders are inclined to lie to the world in order to save face in this manner, then dystopia will permeate into U.S. culture, much like it did in