Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” offer a good depiction of the state of humanity’s relations with nature. Huxley’s 1932 book “Brave New World” reflects the controversial view of Huxley in response to the omen of industrialisation upon humanity’s relationship with the wild. Similarly, Scott’s film “Blade Runner” visually showcases the threat of globalisation upon humanity’s relationship with the wild. Both texts act as allegories for totalitarian systems, attitudes towards progress, and the unachievable concept of utopia, as well as the loss individuality and community as a result of the bereavement in the relationship between humanity and the wild. Both Huxley’s novel and Scott’s film offer a unique insight into relatively revolutionary ideas
This dehumanizes and reduces the person to being an object. Therefore, a person’s judgment is the determining factor for what is to be believed rather than the external religious or secular values. “The Existentialists maintain that part of the human condition is the experience of aloneness…. The sense of isolation comes when we recognize that we cannot depend on anyone else for our own confirmation; that is, we alone must give a sense of meaning to life, and alone must decide how we will live” (Corey G. (2011) p. 143 - 144). According to the theory of existentialism, aloneness is an unavoidable condition of our humanity.
He also altered the purpose and reason of the life in future America if things don’t human continue to let technology overpower them. In Fahrenheit 451, reading books is against the law.
Orwell warns the modern era of an impending government control that will suffocate society’s freedom through a defined class system, perpetual warfare and a society with suppressed thoughts and emotions. The division of classes must be avoided to prevent loss of freedom. As shown in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a troubled society with governmental separation of classes results in demeaning and unfair circumstances for its citizens. A defined class system inlays many freedom robbing rights that a person should have. Because of a permanent hierarchy of status and occupation, it is impossible for a lower class member to move up in society.
Above all else, Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan is an investigation into human nature and the structure of society. Hobbes rigorously argued for social unity established through a commonwealth to escape his troubling image of the state of nature. Hobbes' state of nature is but a hypothetical thought experiment, yet as the argument for an all powerful sovereign unfolds, it is questionable whether his argument is in fact centred upon a false generalisation of human nature. Considering the circumstances in which Thomas Hobbes was raised, the conclusions he reached concerning man kind and the state of nature are not surprising. For the entirety of his early adult life, the Thirty Years War raged in Europe causing total destruction.
So for example if the allies in the west did not promise to rebuild Germany and try to stop every country from becoming communist when they threatened to even if it through fair vote (rare as it was). It can be argued that the cold war was an avoidable one. Firstly the Russians were very aggressive in creating a buffer zone and in fact created communist states practically all over Eastern Europe and made much more than a buffer zone and Stalin was at the heart of all these communist political movements and was trying to spread his influence to even Italy and France. This worried the west very much because they thought their very freedom was being threatened but more importantly the more states that became communist the less ttade there was. The west needed trade partners in the east and they couldn’t trade with communist states.
Dada is an art form that began in the early 20th century. The movement was formed in Europe to protest the lack of social and moral values during World War I (www.artlex.com). Dadaism wasn’t really a style of art, but rather a way for the artist to share their rejection of capitalism, materialism, and progress. The art that was produced was whimsical and absurd, a “mirror of the absurdity in the world around them” (www.oxfordartonline.com), and a complete opposite of the high art that ruled at the time. Surrealism is an art form that started in Europe in the 1920s.
Factors that will affect a spirit of oneness Due to human nature, we cannot achieve a spirit of oneness because factors such as social class, appearance, politics and religion will still cause discrimination between people. Years of hate and discrimination have left some to wonder if we eliminate race and ethnicity as a factor, could we achieve a full spirit of oneness. As explained by Steve Olson in his essay, The End of a Race, he makes a point that if people from different social groups and ethnicities continue to integrate, race would be eliminated. With this, the Dalia Lama explains in his essay, Ethics and New Genetics, how the world needs to achieve a spirit of oneness in order to solve the world’s major internal problems. These problems that he refers to are the unknown side effects of genetically processed foods, and the cloning of animals and humans.
HOT, FLAT, and CROWDED Thomas Friedman, through this book, reveals many energy and environmental aspects of today’s world culture that are ruining life as we know it. He also suggests what he believes are the directions to be taken to reverse, slow, and change our affect and mentality about energy, environment, and society. However, it seems more of a call on America and its role in the future. All that he reveals as the effect humans have had on the environment since the industrial revolution is quite frightening. Non of it is anything we have not already heard in bits andpieces, but hearing it summed in all the areas in total from agricultural methods, use of natural resources, developing nations and their industrialization, the multiplication ofconsumption rate because of population explosions, and the mentality that allows it to continue, all together paint an extremely bleak picture for the earth and the life it sustains.
This further backs up the idea that the whole ‘Chase Manhattan’ is in Bateman’s head and does not actually happen. Ellis in this passage uses language to explore both the unrealistic and casual depiction of violence. We can see this when Bateman says after murdering two people “nice going Bateman”. The casualness of his attitude compared to how graphically and violently he killed them, makes the murders even more dramatic and disturbing. This is Batman’s only escape from the reality of his boring and mundane life of a yuppie.