Tuesday, April 11, 2006

The perfect world...


A dystopian society according to Wikipedia is...

A dystopia is a fictional society that is usually seen as the antithesis of a utopia.

A dystopia is usually characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government, or some other kind of oppressive social control.

In 1984, Brave New World, and The Handmaid's Tale we will be looking at dystopian societies. Since we will be discussing the good and the bad of these societies as well as our own, I want to hear your opinion. If you were in charge and you could change some things to make America the perfect country, what would you change? What are some laws, practices, values, attitudes, people, or places that you would work to change to make our society better?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

As much as I wish it was possible, I agree with Ally. There is no way that everyone in America could live in utopia. There are too many people with too many different personalities and backgrounds that are not understanding of each other. There will always be corruption and people who do not wish to have a better place to live.

Anonymous said...

I don't believe a utopian society is possible eitehr. People are always going to be evil because of the fall, and no matter what we do we can not change that.

Anonymous said...

If I could change anything about America it would be that everyone could get along to have peace, which is not possible but could be worth a try.

Anonymous said...

A Utopian society cannot exist because people are always distrustful. Everyone has flaws and cannot be perfect all the time. Someone has to govern and that person is not perfect either.

Anonymous said...

I don't believe a utopian society would ever be possible. There are too many factors that play into effect. I do not believe there is any way to get rid of lying or corruption. World peace would be nice but that will never happen because there are too many people with different views in the world that will never get along.

Anonymous said...

I think that i would change the transportation system. Everyone should change to motorcycles cause there would be no cars to kill the cyclists. And maybe segways could make surge on the market. You never know.