If dystopia helps to scare us into working harder on that project, which maybe it does, then fine: dystopia. But always in service to the main project, which is utopia.
I think this way of thinking about dystopias is very different and spot on. I think dystopias are made to open our eyes on how easy the world can change and it should prepare us more than it should scare us.
ideological
def: based on or relating to a system of ideas and ideals, especially concerning economic or political theory and policy.
To the extent this is typical, dystopias can be thought of as a kind of surrealism.
I agree with this statement. It is very unlikely for an event like the hunger games to happen, even though it could, the purpose is make us feel something good or bad from an unlikely event.
Possibly dystopias hope to kill the societies they depict.
I don't think dystopias hope to kill societies but instead help us to see what the world could truly be.
There are a lot of dystopias around these days, and this makes sense, because we have a lot of fears about the future.
This is very true. The future is a very unpredictable thing and we have every right to be scared about what will happen and make predictions as we see fit.
Rather, anything that a man can get is hisfor as long as he can keep it.
This is just promoting violence. This is basically giving men permission to take anything they want if they have the ability too.
A further fact about the stateof war of every man against every man: in it there is no suchthing as ownership, no legal control,
This is honestly stupid. It promotes chaos and violence. The fact that they don't care if something belongs to someone else they believe if they can take it, it shouldn't have been there's to begin with.
Every man wants his associates to value himas highly as he values himself;
This is very true. I believe we should not allow people to look at us, talk about us or undermine us in ways we wouldn't talk about ourselves. It reminds me of the saying, if you wouldn't want it said or done to you don't say or do it to others.
find that men are evenmore equal in these than they are in bodily strength
I agree with this. Not every man is super strong and buff equally but every man can be mentally on the same level.
Fascism
a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy
Victory of Samothrace
a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BCE.
anti-Semitism,
hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.
but I had alsolearned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric
I agree with this because when they say "freedom of speech" the freedom of what we can say is somewhat limited. Rhetoric is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. Without everyone having a unique voice freedom of speech is nothing.
innocuous
not harmful or offensive.
Sublimation
the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together
I believe this is somewhat true because I believe it does take a village. When we come together we are stronger and better than when we are individuals
ȁbarbarous
savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal.
It was discovered that a person becomes neurotic because he cannot tolerate the amount of frustration which society imposes on him in the service of its cultural ideals
I find this statement very interesting because it makes a lot of sense. Frustration and stress are major causes of mental problems
If we cannot remove all suffering, we can remove some, and we can mitigate some:
I resonated with this so much because we all go through pain and its hard to completely get rid of it so we do what we can to reduce it
thrownness
definition: a concept introduced by German philosopher Martin Heidegger to describe humans' individual existences as being 'thrown' into the world.
age, humiliate, or destroy the person. In American society women, Blacks,Asians, Arabs, gay men, and lesbians live under such threats of violence, and inat least some regions Jews, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, and other Spanish-speak-ing Americans must fear such violence as well. Physical violence against thesegroups is shockingly frequent. Rape Crisis Center networks estimate thatmore than one-third ofall American women experience an attempted or suc-cessful sexual assault in their lifetimes. Manning Marable (1984, pp. 238—41)
I strongly agree with this statement. Hate crimes and death threats are very common in the black, asian, Latino and lgbtq communities. I fell as though every identifying group that is not a straight white man has received oppressing threats from others.
Many people in the United States would not choose the term "oppression" to name injustice in our society.
I disagree with this statement. I believe many people in the U.S. would use the term oppression to name injustice in our society especially minorities, because that's what it is. Most injustices are specifically targeted towards minority groups which is a form of oppression.