Suppression of the People
Ivan Rendon
September 7th, 2013
Sociology
What We Might Be
Everyday the United States and plenty of other governments suppress the power of the people to keep in hold the power of the rich and the their finances in tact. As we see in 15,000,000 Merits their society is a direct reflection of ours with only some drastic differences that can easily become our world within a few steps if we are not careful of how we treat the common people of the country.
Technology was a huge role in the suppression of the people in 15,000,000 Merits. Everyday the worker bees of the world were pushed in front of computer screens and told how much they’re biking, everyday they would wake up to a virtual world of any setting they wanted but unrealistic and cartoony, and everyday they were forced to watch the commercials with consequences if they stopped looking at the screen. If that wasn’t bad enough anybody who couldn’t keep up with a certain amount of merits were deemed obese and forced to clean trash, an even lower spot in social class. Being forced everyday to watch the walls of your room and being forced to watch commercials gives the higher class a perfect situation to control the masses. Even though the higher class keeps the working and lower class suppressed they give them the chance to become famous and rich. It’s this slim chance of hope they give the people, I feel, is somewhat of a strategy from the higher class to keep the working class from starting a revolution. Without this slim hope of success or a chance to change their lives forever everyone would eventually rise up against the higher class and their would be no working class to support the higher class and their finances which is what keeps them above everyone else.
Now the society we see in 15,000,000 Merits can be an almost direct reflection