Monday, September 7, 2009
1984 Changes History...
History is history. It stays the same. However, it changes with each new person's perspective on the events that have taken place. It is possible, as 1984 suggests, to change the past in order to control the future. History always tends to be a controversial subject when the whole population tries to collectively decide what children should be taught, what should be emphasized, and what should be left out. The fact that people all across the world have different opinions means that we all have a different idea about what in the past is worth mentioning in the present. Each group of people want the power to state their beliefs as truth. This would give them an advantage or a certain hold over all the other people. It is possible for them to control what innocent minds learn at a young age,, which makes these young children more susceptible in believing what the group in power is trying to pass off as truth. By showing certain events in a biased light, these groups can easily turn kids on the what they believe. When they brainwash kids into believing their propaganda, they have more followers. This takes away the children's right to make their own decision. We only know what we are taught and when we are taught to believe a lie, the lie becomes truth, it becomes sacred. Whoever chooses to question the so-called truth is deemed unpatriotic and becomes a stain in society. In 1984, these kinds of people would be said to have committed a thought crime and their punishment would be vaporization...which means the person would be completely erased from history. This gives the group in charge even more power and grants them the illusion of intimidation.
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Hey Katrina,
ReplyDeleteI agree completely with what you said. After the reading the article and how it said they wanted to remove or replace certain historical figures, I thought of 1984 right away. By removing or deleting these certain people, the upcoming generations will not know who these people are; making these people become 'vaporized.' It is unfortunate that people want to achieve this.
I also find it important that we need to look out for the children of the future generations. Their minds haven't fully developed, so they are a bit naive when it comes to certain information (in this case, the past). I also believe that history can be perceived in many different ways, which makes it a bit frightening to see how the future reacts to certain teaching.
I found your blog really interesting and intriguing, because you basically stated my opinion better than I would. So yeah, good job on your blog!
Well, firstly I would like to say that I think I did my blog wrong. After reading yours and Sean's I realize that there is a big difference compared to mine. The things you talked about anyways. Right, well I think that you mentioned some very good points. And I liked that chain of reactions that you mentioned also. I completely agree with that as well. It is so wrong how those people think that they can just have their input in history books that affect the younger generation. It is basically like brainwashing them into thinking the same way, like you mentioned. I just wanted to say that these people think way to highly of themselves, for thinking that they have that much authority. Education is important especially at a young age, then you start to develop your own opinions, and if those people change historical facts and put in their religious beliefs that would interfere with the kids forming their own opinions about things. Even though we are free from being brainwashed, those kids are not, so hopefully this change does not go into effect. I guess if we were in 1984 we wouldn't even exist anymore because all of us would have been vaporized. Hahaha.
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