Individuality In Utopian Societies

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Individuality is the greatest threat to a utopian society, if one person doesn’t like the way the leader is running the show, then why should you continue to follow their lead? This is the problem I tackled in my final project, as I produced a seminar that was telling students from a fictional institution how to run their utopian societies in a way where they could eliminate or control individuality. Of course their are many different ways to see a utopian society, sometimes it is optimistic, Where To Invade Next (2015) while others are much darker, 1984 (1984). I quickly decided to ignore the optimistic utopian societies, since many times the citizens are the rulers. Instead I focused on the utopian societies that were completely controlling …show more content…
The presentations ten proposed ways of running society would essential eliminate the Outer Party, making individuality a less common occurrence for future utopian leaders. Throughout the presentation I use quotes from an imaginary leader of the Institute of Future Utopian Leaders (IFUL), the imaginary institute where this seminar is taking place. George Lang is the man’s name and his quotes are propaganda, telling students that “Together We are a stronger and happier people.” This was used to drive the point home that this seminar would be exploring the control many leaders have over their citizens, even the students of the seminar. Essentially telling them that life in their utopian society was better if we all work together and not be …show more content…
The police or government agents are an important part of controlling your citizens behavior, they add physical intimidation that will reinforce that citizens must act normally. In most films about utopian societies these enforcers would normally be apart of the outer party, which must be dismantled in order to retain complete control over the citizens. I suggest that citizens shouldn’t be apart of the police force or government agency, instead the leaders should be using robots or something that they can easily control. The fourth tip talks about watching over your citizens, using cameras that would be placed in advantages positions. It’s sort of an extension of the third tip, but the police force cannot watch every citizen 24/7. I suggest that robots should be watching the cameras to catch citizens in the act of individuality or at least see any early signs of antisocial or individual

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