ENG110Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Totalitarianism
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Utopia: a place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions. Dystopia: a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst- case scenario, make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system. Individuality and dissent are bad: _the society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world. Running man: _bureaucratic control: society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials. Examples in film include brazil: _technological control: society is controlled by technology through computers, robots, and/or scientific means. I, robot: _philosophical/religious control: society is controlled by philosophical or religious ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic government.
