Security vs. Liberty

After comparing Huxley's A Brave New World and V I do agree with the general assertion that security and liberty tend to be at opposition with one another. I don't think that it should be this way and I hope that there is a possibility for that to change. However I have little hpe for a system to be create that would provide people with all of the liberties that they feel they deserve and also the security that people need in order to enjoy those liberties. In both of these fictional worlds the liberty of themembers of the societies are limited but only in A Brave New World do they feel secure as well because they are controlled through genetic conditioning as opposed to fear.
The discussion that we had in class the other da about control through phameceuticals I found to be very interesting. similar the the world that Huxley created drugs are becoming more commonly used as a means of normalizing and controling the behavior of children or to alter the mindset of a person in a way that is supposed to make them feel or behave better. the world that we are living in could very well spiral down into won that is as controlled as a BNW which is scary. Drugs are becoming the way to deal with rambunctious kis who are just that kids they are supposed to have lots of energy. It is also becoming a way of continuing the a divide between the fortuante and the less fortunate. For example, in my high school it was not uncommon for students to be diagnosed with ADD or different learning disorders that enabled them to get extra time of all exams. Everyone would do well if they had unlimited time to write two essays as opposed to one hour. It is supposed to be a way of levelling the playing feild but if these kids didn't have parents that thought and were able to get there kids tested for these learning disabilities they would not have gotten this treatment. I do beleive that the dependency on drugs that has been created in our society is a nother means of control that will ultimately limit our security without adding to our liberty.

V For Vendetta

I really enjoyed watchiing this movie I ahd never seen it before and found it very interesting. One of the things that stood out to me was V's statement that you cannot kill an idea but that you can kill the man and how an ideology is stronger than ony one person because it cannot be killed the way that a person can. i feel that he showed how an ideology can be unifying through the use of his masks. He tried to give a voice to the voiceless with his tactics. Ultimately his attacks are no better than that of the governments but they did leave the room for the change that the country thought it needed. i particularly liked the quptation from the film about how "people should not fear their governments but governments should fear its people." i think that this points out the fascist nature of the high chancellor and also would call people to question the world that is running their lives. Another thing that I noticed about the film is that Evey tended to be cast with some form of light shining on her where as the members of the party usually were cast in the shadows and darkness. I think that this gives the viewer not only the impression of one being oppressive and the other liberating but I think that fore the light on evey it also shows the means to changes. she was an instrument that V used to carry out his plan and change the nation. This film carried lots of diferent messages and I think the last one that I found to be most powerful was the way V tortured Evey and how he says that through that process he freed her of her fear. I don't know whether or not tha tis a good thing but i did see how he wanted her to becaom like him.