In 1984, it was thought to be no privacy at all. Big Brother was "watching" our every move. Nothing was secret. If you did one wrong move, you we're in big trouble. But what about today's privacy. Today's privacy is better in my opinion then in 1984. Today you have much more freedom. They aren't watching your every move. There's traffic light cameras, surveillance cameras, and airport security. But if you think about is, all of those precautions are for our safety. Also the government isn't putting cameras at every corning and arresting you just because of your thoughts. Today we have the Bill of Rights on our sides. The government isn't telling us we can't have sex, own a gun, or disagree with their laws. As far as I know the government doesn’t read or emails, listen to our phone calls, or monitor our text messages. However, if they did they don’t let you know they do. They don’t do anything about it, anything drastic anyway. We aren’t monitored 24/7 unless we did something wrong or proven to need monitoring and surveillance. The government gives us freedom and space unlike the Party in 1984. So overall today’s privacy is not an issue compared to back in 1984.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Privacy...What Privacy?
In 1984, it was thought to be no privacy at all. Big Brother was "watching" our every move. Nothing was secret. If you did one wrong move, you we're in big trouble. But what about today's privacy. Today's privacy is better in my opinion then in 1984. Today you have much more freedom. They aren't watching your every move. There's traffic light cameras, surveillance cameras, and airport security. But if you think about is, all of those precautions are for our safety. Also the government isn't putting cameras at every corning and arresting you just because of your thoughts. Today we have the Bill of Rights on our sides. The government isn't telling us we can't have sex, own a gun, or disagree with their laws. As far as I know the government doesn’t read or emails, listen to our phone calls, or monitor our text messages. However, if they did they don’t let you know they do. They don’t do anything about it, anything drastic anyway. We aren’t monitored 24/7 unless we did something wrong or proven to need monitoring and surveillance. The government gives us freedom and space unlike the Party in 1984. So overall today’s privacy is not an issue compared to back in 1984.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The Benefits of Propaganda...
What
are the benefits of propaganda? There aren't any. Think about it. Look at the
picture for example, it is a picture of a creepy man staring at us, telling us
he's watching us. This is what propaganda is all about? Making everyone live in
fear? How does this benefit us? It doesn't. This is a selfish attempt the Party
use to keep power over us. But the sad this is that it works. Some people are
pulled into following this stuff because they are scared. The Party is wrong
for doing this. Using something like propaganda in a negative annotation. Me on
the other hand, I'm not scared of it. I have enough sense to know that there is
no way that the Party is really watching us all the time. They don't know what
I'm doing. But I don't really want to rebel against this propaganda/fear tactics the Party is creating. I
just like having fun and outsmarting the Party. The Party isn't going to
dictate what I do. So overall what are my opinions of propaganda? It could be
good if used properly and nicely. But sadly, the Party is using it to take over.This is why I am against propaganda.
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