Darkschunt 
Monday, May 17, 2004
The doorway behind you could lead to a place of utopia or a place of distopia - it depends on which one of these states your heart resembles
Coincidentally today we discussed communism and the idea of utopia in class and I just wanted to add something to my communism blabberings earlier. George Orwell's 1984 just confirmed what i was saying about communism and how it just turns people into machine-like beings in completely drab and boring surroundings. Except of course that George Orwell's book took it to the further extremes.
Also, as in Orwell's book, Big Brother, the dictator of the communist Oceania, was so obviously a bad leader, as most communist country leaders usually are. But, as I was saying before, even though you had a good leader in charge of communism, I doubt it would work. There are just too many loopholes in communism.
That brings us to another point. Does anyone realize just how hypocritical communism is because it claims to be a perfect vision/utopia? Usually we'd see communism ideology as something as a lesser evil if it is compared with capitalism and if it was carried out without corruption. However, at least capitalism does not profess to be perfect. It knows it has loopholes and faces the world unashamedly with all its flaws. And i think in that one way communism is so much more horrifying than capitalism with all its unbalanced power structures and demeaning Third World labor could be.
By the way, utopia means perfect place or no place. A perfect place that is no place? That, in a way, is sad. Does that mean I'll never have my perfect land? Or maybe that's heaven. ;)
Coincidentally today we discussed communism and the idea of utopia in class and I just wanted to add something to my communism blabberings earlier. George Orwell's 1984 just confirmed what i was saying about communism and how it just turns people into machine-like beings in completely drab and boring surroundings. Except of course that George Orwell's book took it to the further extremes.
Also, as in Orwell's book, Big Brother, the dictator of the communist Oceania, was so obviously a bad leader, as most communist country leaders usually are. But, as I was saying before, even though you had a good leader in charge of communism, I doubt it would work. There are just too many loopholes in communism.
That brings us to another point. Does anyone realize just how hypocritical communism is because it claims to be a perfect vision/utopia? Usually we'd see communism ideology as something as a lesser evil if it is compared with capitalism and if it was carried out without corruption. However, at least capitalism does not profess to be perfect. It knows it has loopholes and faces the world unashamedly with all its flaws. And i think in that one way communism is so much more horrifying than capitalism with all its unbalanced power structures and demeaning Third World labor could be.
By the way, utopia means perfect place or no place. A perfect place that is no place? That, in a way, is sad. Does that mean I'll never have my perfect land? Or maybe that's heaven. ;)
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