In my senior year of high school, I read a book named 1984 by George Orwell. The book contains a futuristic plot of how the future will be completely run by the government. You and everything about will no longer belong to you. You aren’t even safe in your own mind. You cannot express any feeling, gestures, or any other natural human emotions or reactions or else you will be eliminated. That meant that you can’t have sex for pleasure, only when told, with the no emotions gestures or feelings rule still in play.
Since I’ve read this book, I’ve always wondered how someone would survive living in a community such as that. To live your life like controlled robots, constantly fearing of being eliminated, and knowing that whatever the government or higher powers are saying is not true but you still have to accept it as a fact. The newspaper could say one thing today and completely contradict itself the next day but there is nothing you can say or do about it.
I worked on a film project on the subject of helping the homeless while I was in high school. Most people say they are reluctant to give the homeless a helping hand because they waste the change they are given on alcohol. Of course that is not the case with all homeless people but there is an argument that you don’t know which are telling the truth and which aren’t. It’s tough for those who would actually use the money they receive in order to really help themselves to have to be in the same category as who throw away their spare change on useless things and even things that will actually harm them.
I find the homeless community to be a frightening community to be a part of. Struggling to gather some change to find something to eat and the horrors of finding a safe place to sleep and a ton of other factors are all some scary situations that come with being part of the homeless community.
I’m not sure if this would be considered as a community or not, but one place that I would enjoy being is the classic cartoon world, including cartoons like The Looney Tunes and my personal favorite, Tom and Jerry. I could see myself laughing constantly living in the Tom and Jerry community. I would get hurt in one scene but with a transitional fade or wipe, I would be at 100% in the next scene. I would seldom speak but you would be able to figure out my intentions from my gestures and actions. I would never do any chores because I would have a cat named Tom to do that for me and I would never do any homework because I would have a smart, writing capable mouse named Jerry to do that for me also. I would probably be rich or well known for having a dog named Spike who knows how to growl, bark and speak English
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After mentioning the book 1984, I realized how bizarre of a community Orwell did create. I totally agree with what you said though. I feel that there would in fact be no point in living, without a soul, sort of speak. Living your life as a robot, would in fact get old.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with the last two communities. I know I always hesitate or walk the other direction of close my window around homeless. I guess I fear of what they may do to me or how they will react in certain situations. As for Tom and Jerry, I would have actually never thought of this type of community, but it may in fact work. Like you had said, living in a non-realistic world would be ideal.