Thursday, October 22, 2015

Week 6 Big Brother is watching



Julie Le
Week 6
ASA002 A01
October 22, 2015

According to the article, the two forms of power is “to quarantine and to discipline.” Anyone that steps out of the notion of what is considered appropriate is immediately punished. This creates the idea of “Big Brother” watching over everyone to make sure they stay in line and don’t acct up against societal norms.This idea that keeps people under check and looking over their shoulders to put them in a place where they can’t even consider questioning the societal standards they were forced into. This method essentially works so that the people oppress themselves by the constant fear of being watched so they don’t consider acting out in fear of repercussions.  Lately there has been an ongoing debate on whether or not police men should wear a camera on them and I think that in order to fight back the system that has trained us into silencing ourselves, we need to fight back and make them take what they’ve given us. In order to regain our voice, we need to speak up against those oppressing us and show them that we will fight.

Question: If everyone is watching their own shoulders and staying in line in fear of being watched, who is watching the people forcing us into these situations? How can we address the issue of police cameras in order to prevent hate crimes as well as showing the system that they don’t control us, we control them?



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