Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Utopias Overall

I've been a fan of Psycho-Pass for a few years now and initially I thought this would be a terrible world to live in but now I am not so sure. From all of the texts we have viewed/read in this class I realized there will always be something imperfect about society (violence, boring, everyone's a drug addict, etc). I think for many of these societies to be successful, it requires some level of unawareness and ignorance about the system from the masses. Kogami and Akane's increasing self-awareness seems to be a route of many of their problems as it isolates them from their blissfully unaware peers. As a result, it lands them in situations that causes them to pit their values against the ideas that have been ingrained in them by society and the Sybil system. Awareness seems to be a route of conflict for many of the characters we've studied (ex. if John hadn't been so painfully aware of the downfalls of the World State he would have assimilated into their society, been hopped up on soma, and living his best life). I guess what Im trying to say is sometimes, ignorance really is bliss.

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