In Ray Bradbury's short story "There will come Soft Rains" technology negatively influences society. Ray Bradbury demonstrates the technology can and will lead to war, pain, and laziness. To begin, mankind’s misuse of technology leads to their end. Humans were so thoughtless and selfish that they fought until "a radioactive glow could be seen for miles" (Bradbury 90). Mankind was consumed with technology they ended up not thinking of the damage they could cause with a nuclear war.
The Burning Truth Fire! It is hard to believe firemen start fires rather than putting them out. Yet that is what happens in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. Dehumanization takes place as the advancements in technology make people less emotional and less capable of independent thought. This is exactly what the totalitarian government, in Bradbury’s Novel, wants for their mindless society.
Humanity’s Separation from Nature The gray unhappy air surrounds civilization as the pollution of human creations and discoveries tears us further and further from our natural beginnings. Nature no longer encompasses us with sunshine and beauty, left alone we become monsters in our outlook and attempt to take control of power we were never meant to have. With the use of drugs and the constant striving for upmost power to create living from dead we have destroyed our natural roots. Natural processes slowly disappear from the world around us, in Brave New World the Director says; "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!" (1) This is a process where people are artificially made and conditioned into certain parts of society.
The world is careening to an end. A psychological advancement is changing the way society thinks. The world as we know it will soon disappear completely. A rebirth of the planet has begun, lead by the World Wide Web. This revelation has many people frustrated, scared, and cowering in corners; yet others don’t seem to grasp the enormity of the situation.
Moral regulation the way in which society regulates individuals, the norms and values which constrain people’s behaviour. He believed that when these functions break down, the individual could not control the environment they live in and are left to their own devices. He called this anomie (society in which individuals do not have any firm guidelines about the way to behave with each other.) (Lawson and Garrod 1996).Social change could create anomie, such as closure of large factories causing high unemployment. Thus possibly creating a link leading to suicidal tendencies.
Similarly, in the movie 2081, if people are found smarter then most, they have to wear ‘handicaps’ to prevent them from thinking for themselves, being creative, or thinking too much. In both futuristic worlds, the extraordinary is outlawed. People must appear and think in unison in order for them to be accepted. For example, in Brave New World, Bernard Marx fails to fit in because of his inferior physical stature that demonstrates individuality, therefore, he is not given the same opportunities as other Alpha males and is fired by the DHC. Likewise, in 2081, Harrison Bergeron is placed in prison and death-sentenced for promoting individuality and being very intelligent.
Also Colin talks about the idea that companies in the 1905’s came up with the idea of building products that were going to break down or make newer products quicker so that consumers would buy more products and be less satisfied with what they had with the previous items. Colin also proceeds to think that even recycled items such as toilet paper is not what it says it is and the family decides not to use it at all. His idea that the economy runs to heavily off materials and then we send those materials back to the earth is worst shape then we found makes him decide to look into recycled products and how they are after we have used them. Towards the end of the chapter Colin still feels that there are more things that they can do to get closer to zero emissions in their everyday
Cara Kildall Period 5 10/17/08 LOTF Final Dictatorship is a slightly barbaric form of government that mistreats its citizens, and is ineffective. People’s mental welfare is in danger, because of the stress and trepidation of trying to live through another day. Also, they live in apprehension of being hurt or, in the case of Lord of the Flies, going crazy. Lawlessness is unhealthy for children and adults, and so a solid government is essential for happiness. Under dictatorship, many citizens feel incredible fear and deep unhappiness.
“Into the Electronic Millenium” Sven Birkerts Most individuals, if not the world, may consider technological innovations and advances to be a beneficial aspect in our contemporary society. However, according to Sven Birkerts in his article, “Into the Electronic Millennium,” the assimilation of technology into our society has only affected us negatively. On one hand, the usage of these modern gadgets has caused detrimental effects to our daily language, altering the way we speak and communicate for the worse. On the other hand, such electric components have also provoked a loss of value for privacy as well. In accord with Birkerts ideals, I too, agree in the detrimental effects evoked from such technological advances.
Limited education is layed out through the government’s manipulation of the past, newspeak which is the government limiting language, and mob physcology. Newspeak is the new way people speak in the country, it is condensing vocabulary to the most limited words possible. The point of Newspeak was to “limit human thought” in order to keep the citizens unable to express thoughts that the goverement did not want them to think, which illustrates the pyscological power of a goverement in society. Another example of the nation limited education is mob physcology, when everyone accepts everything they are told it is scary to become an indivisual and think for yourself in fear of what others will do to you or think. The goverement also alters the past immensely in the