Nineteen Eighty-Four

Plato states in The Republic that “[u]ntil philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophize, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide…cities will have no rest from evils…there can be no happiness, either public or private, in any other city” (473c-e). People have known for thousands of years about Plato’s concept of philosopher kings, so why hasn’t there come to be more societies under such rule? George…

Malcom Gladwell is a Canadian journalist who also is one of the bestselling author of the century. He had written total of five books and one of them has become the bestselling and started his writer career is “Blink”. The book “Blink” was publish in 2005 and it is about how human subconscious interfere with the decision making. Human mind works in a weird way that nobody can understand. Many psychologists have tried to study human mind to see how it works the way it is. In Blink, Gladwell…

Absolute Functionalism: Lack of Cultural Values of Hobbes’ Commonwealth Humans can never secure themselves in nature. In Leviathan, Hobbes proposes the natural state of all humans that they are constantly waging a war with each other. The only way to end this war is to form a commonwealth and build contracts. In the infamous literature work, the Jungle Books, Kipling shows to the readers a world of jungle with personified animals and various social groups. It seems that Hobbes’s theories of the…

According to a British journalist, Paul Johnson, ''In the absence of willpower a complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless'' (brainy quotes). Willpower is an important matter in life. The Power of Habit book, by an American author Charles Duhigg, has keystone habits that are the source of solutions to many problems, including habit change and willpower. People succeed by transforming habits to achieve them, they have to focus on the pattern that shapes their lives. I agree…

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” This quote by William Arthur Ward demonstrates the profound impact that adversity has on everyday individuals. Furthermore, this impact is especially visible in the texts, “Divisadero” and “The Rose That Grew From Concrete”, but also in our everyday lives, such as in the devastating form of climate change. Adversity shapes an individual’s identity in one of two ways: by building character strength or by breaking it. Michael…

As William Bernbach once said, “An important idea not communicated persuasively is like having no idea at all.” It is true that the importance of writing persuasively on crucial matters is clear in many areas of life. One of the most important subjects about which it is important to write persuasively is politics. This is because of the way the media, especially when it comes to conspiracy theories, is constantly trying to persuade the people to believe different things, and the only way to make…

Times and USA Today. I agree that double speak is all around us and misleads but I do not believe that all doublespeak is bad. First, I agree that doublespeak is misleading and deceiving and is something that is very relevant today. Lutz describes four different kinds of doublespeak and the first one is euphemism. When euphemism is used because of sensitivity toward’s someones feelings or for consern it is not…

Conform, conform, conform! This is the scream of all governments across the globe, regardless of what type. The dictatorship screams this demand at the top of their lungs for all to hear, while the democracy silently drills this chant into the minds of all their people. However, both types of governments have the same idea in mind; the ability to control and watch over the public in order to ensure that they always remain in power. In one aspect of his novel, 1984, George Orwell addresses this…

Silent Domination Society is one of the most disastrous things man has ever created. It is as if its people were divided into four nations in an Avatar-esque fashion: fire, air, earth, and water. However, these elements correspond to what is the “north and south of temperament” or generally, the extrovert-introvert spectrum. Like the fire nation plans to take over the world in Aang’s epic journey, the “widely accepted”, emphasis on the quotation marks, Extrovert ideal also continues to increase…

Aldous Hexley is saying that if modern society continues down the path it is currently going, the political standings, and the way people think could completely change the potential future in a way that we have no say for ourselves and are restricted in most every way that makes us human. In the distant future, government allotted drug use, public sex acts, and growing babies, the world has become the happiest it ever has been. Despite all the precautions taken by The Directors of hatcheries…