The Pros And Cons Of Panopticism

Michel Foucault, in “Panopticism,” explains that panopticism it can be very beneficial; however, it would lead to tyranny at the end. Plato talks, in “Allegory of the cave,” about the experience in the point of view of a prisoner chained in dark caves and his experience after that. Brian Doyle, in “Joyas Voladoras,” describes a variety of creatures that have hearts, explains their adaptation and their properties; demonstrates that humankind have a unique type of heart - the locker of all the emotion human don’t express. Walker Percy describes the interaction of consumer and merchants, in “The Loss of the Creature”. Most Americans live as convicts of the false ideologies in the United States; inequality and ignorance chained Americans into an …show more content…
In America, many people are still inside of this cage of the Americans; locked up in cages call inequality. The elite and the individuals with significant power separate Americans, to prevent interaction between cultures, to prevent the exchange of information, and to prevent escapes from their social status. America is the biggest example of panopticism; the federal government is always watching the civilians. Americans are living in fear and insecurity. The fear and insecurity in America has created so many acts like the homeland security, the freedom act; in order to protect its citizens by confining them. Cages are the biggest obstacle to having freedom; once an individual is in a cage, he is at the mercy of the captor, and all that matters is to keep the victim dying, but with energy to survive in the …show more content…
Percy states that man is “not something one can study … is something one struggles for” (310). Percy says that the between expert and layman planner and consumer divide a society; “he expert and the planner build the consumer; they know and plan, but the consumer needs and experience” (310). The consumer knows that his only rights are the rights of a consumer; “the consumer moves like a ghost” and establishes title in any place or item to escape his role of consumer (309). He establishes his claim to state that he too was part of the experience that happened there, the people or the shared wealth - by declaring objects of material wealth. “The laymen will be seduced as long” as he accepts to be a consumer; experiencing rather than obtaining prizes (310). “As long as he waives his sovereign rights as a person and accept his role of consumer as the highest estate to which the layman can aspire” (310). One has to suffer what one person suffers, to comprehend him or her. As long as there is this incomprehension between the expert and the layman, the planner and the consumer, the novice and the user will