Last Friday during the Socratic seminar I remember how Mrs.
Fletcher brought up the question if our government could ever turn into one
like in the book 1984. At first my mind was on a set no. I mentioned how our
country is way too big with so many people and seeing how our country is built
up by the main goal of freedom of the people, it just couldn't work. Unless of course,
we were under attack and taken over by a new super power then yea it could
happen. Well anyways… this is what I believed
at first but after putting in more thought it may not actually turn out to be
so impossible. If you have read my past blog post about Government Surveillance
then you would know that I was stumped on the whole necessary and proper clause
situation and if it would give the government a reason to spy on us. Since I’m
still a bit confused on that lets say that the necessary and proper clause did
let the government have a tighter hold on surveillance. After taking that first
step into invading our original rights what is there to stop them from finding
another reason to take it a step further later on in the future? To put it in
other words, what is there to stop someone from making an unfair choice again
after not being punished or stopped for doing it the first time? I still can’t
see our country falling into such a state like 1984 but in a way I can see it
brainwashing our people into believing what we have is freedom and what the
government is doing is justice and protecting us. In Oceania, the people were
closed off from the outside world like the people in North Korea for instance
so because of that fact it’s a lot easier for them to keep a more tighter hold
and tell them only what they want them to know about the outside world. For us
on the other hand, we always get new immigrants with knowledge of a world outside
the states and our own people constantly travel outside to see the world for
themselves. So you can’t really brainwash them in the way Big Brother did in 1984
but I still don’t believe we are entirely safe or at least the future
generation won’t be. All I know (more like what I believe) is that the
Government is plotting something that we aren't aware of and if we don’t stop
them in their tracks any way we can it’s just going to get worse as time goes
by. In the end with this in mind, I’ll probably forget about it at one point
and continue the “freedom” I do have and enjoy my life with it.
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