Examples Of Hive Mentality
From this quotation, it can be seen that methods akin to the caste system mentioned earlier have no resistance put up with them, as a result of the citizens being hardwired and brainwashed to blindly accept it.
The entire purpose of controlling knowledge and brainwashing everyone in this society is to create a hive mind. A population that thinks together as one. Everyone virtually becomes the same if they know the same information, and feel the same about everything. The group becomes one and begins the think and act as one. Understandably, it is much easier to control one than it is to control everybody. From innumerable different perspectives on societies the theme of a ‘hive mentality’ is a crucial point where there is little chance of …show more content…
This seems to be a chilling thought right? How something as subtle as playing audio to you when you are sleeping or unconscious will change your mental picture of the world as well as your morality. Unfortunately, all of this has roots in our current society too. There is no denying the fact that the victors write the history books. For example, the allies won WWII against the axis powers. Both sides did commit atrocities during the war, albeit some far worse than others, but still the textbooks say surprisingly little of what the allies did wrong, and goes on and on about the holocaust. This is just one example, but this technique ranges back throughout history, again we observe it with the English and American relations with the native people of north America. Overall, it is far too common to be a few outliers. Aside from information on the past, controllers control and construe current information. Try to find a news outlet which does not try to project their own biases onto the information, it’s impossible. What about advertising? Talk about blasting messages incessantly on and on at the public. Unfortunately, it happens everywhere, and much of our uninformed and unaware selves. Importantly, everything we intake is specifically for the masses and with a purpose, much akin to the hypnopaedia of Brave New World. In the novel, there are a few people that slip through the cracks in hypnopaedia so what is there for those
The entire purpose of controlling knowledge and brainwashing everyone in this society is to create a hive mind. A population that thinks together as one. Everyone virtually becomes the same if they know the same information, and feel the same about everything. The group becomes one and begins the think and act as one. Understandably, it is much easier to control one than it is to control everybody. From innumerable different perspectives on societies the theme of a ‘hive mentality’ is a crucial point where there is little chance of …show more content…
This seems to be a chilling thought right? How something as subtle as playing audio to you when you are sleeping or unconscious will change your mental picture of the world as well as your morality. Unfortunately, all of this has roots in our current society too. There is no denying the fact that the victors write the history books. For example, the allies won WWII against the axis powers. Both sides did commit atrocities during the war, albeit some far worse than others, but still the textbooks say surprisingly little of what the allies did wrong, and goes on and on about the holocaust. This is just one example, but this technique ranges back throughout history, again we observe it with the English and American relations with the native people of north America. Overall, it is far too common to be a few outliers. Aside from information on the past, controllers control and construe current information. Try to find a news outlet which does not try to project their own biases onto the information, it’s impossible. What about advertising? Talk about blasting messages incessantly on and on at the public. Unfortunately, it happens everywhere, and much of our uninformed and unaware selves. Importantly, everything we intake is specifically for the masses and with a purpose, much akin to the hypnopaedia of Brave New World. In the novel, there are a few people that slip through the cracks in hypnopaedia so what is there for those