Under The Dome Documentary Analysis

This “Under the Dome” documentary was topic of this week’s readings and it is something that the Chinese public were hungry for. They know how bad pollution is, living through it every day. They watched this video in droves, not because they needed to learn about the pollution, but almost more of an affirmation of their turmoil. Then the government, after noticing its virility, took it down to stave off any other proliferation of the video’s information. The Chinese already has a drastic hold on the nation internet, this being just one more instance of their stranglehold being tightened.
A person of realist perspective would use a systemic level of analysis to examine both sides of the situation. It is a balance of power between the largest population of country in the world and its corrupt communist governmental overlords. The people want to educate each other just how bad the pollution of the country is widespread while the government is conflict with itself; they want a growing, developing industry complex but also to hinder pollution. They know this two thing cannot work easily together but have put authoritative regulations of such industry to ward
They have it in their nature to ensure order and they believed that this video threatened that order. Liberals could also agree slightly in the same level of analysis claiming that it’s the leaders’ responsibility to ensure bureaucratic stability between both the people and their leaders. The leaders’ strategy of snuffing out this video as if it never happen could lend itself to the identity perspective on the individual level as well. This video was something that could have spark a revolution in China albeit maybe we have never seen due to its population and the leaders of the country went through great lengths to make the turmoil of the people all that much