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...of a better life. For some it is not just a better life they are after but a perfect life. These people are in search of a utopia. Philosophers and novelist have been teaching classes and writing books on how to reach a perfect society with no grief or turmoil. The philosopher Karl Marx wrote "The Communist Manifesto" to express his vision of what is necessary to form a utopia. Religious leaders like Jim Jones have lead separated communities working to be a utopia within itself.
When Karl Marx ideas were put into practice the society never came together as he believed it would. When Russia raised the communist flag life improved for awhile. Over time the strife came back and became much worse. Not only was life getting harder for the public, the government began to take away rights in order to maintain control. Many writers focus on this aspect of utopias. Many times they become dystopias. Jim Jones' community in Guyana ended in the death of most ever person in the society. Books like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Farienheigt 451 by Ray Bradbury portray the message that it is the very tools used to maintain societal control that create a dystopia. To maintain societal control in a dystopia the controlling party needs to disinform the public, offer an accepted release from reality, and a penalty to non-conformers.
In the book Brave New World they began conditioning people before they are born. The embryos are divided into castes and then conditioned according to what is predestined to be their life. The embryos are taken into the Predestination Room. Over a nine-month process of development substances are added or taken away from the embryo in order to make the person like their lives. The disinformation begins by producing humans on a production line. Those in power tell the populous that they are not indiviguals but only a part of...
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