Why is it that the oppressive order of the rulers of our society continues on despite the fact that our social order’s daily lives consist of savage like and conspicuous activities? It has come to my mind that society’s so called “plan” for humanity is so animal like and concealed, we do not realize it due to the fact of being raised in such a manner. If somebody like me would go out to voice my opinion and tell all of humanity that the way we live is wrong, they would assume or automatically think I am on the edge of insanity.
Our society runs on three basic activities that would be completely absurd if it was forced upon on the societies before us whom were highly more accepted towards free will granted to all of mankind: Sex, indulgence of soma, and the teachings of biased opinions. Sex will never escape the lust of men, but all I can speak out against is resisting the temptation no matter how much lust tries to force themselves upon you.
I am a man, and I am not perfect towards the attacks of lust subsequently going after me each time I try to be the most respectful gentleman as I can. Love arrives at my door, and I open it welcoming it into my home after its countless knocks and rings. Lenina, the woman I seemed to care about more than anything in the world; the one person who made me feel as if nothing else in the world mattered as our eyes came in contact with each other with an everlasting glare. I felt as if our connection would last forever. I would be the warrior killing a mountain lion for its skin just to prove my unchangeable love towards you. You and I would be together forever because I thought our love was so strong and that we cared for each other greatly, willing to die for each other despite what other people think. I thought as if our love would be so unbreakable like when Romeo stared deeply into Juliet’s eyes after he indulged in poison to kill the strength of ten men without one ounce of love being nonexistent in their connection.
My emotions don’t seem to matter in the least in your eyes. All you are looking for is sex, but what should I expect from a perfect example of society’s cruel ways of life. Just because I expressed my emotions that I thought would be everlasting at the time, it doesn’t mean I mainly want to perform sex with you. Our society is so corrupted; it can’t even distinguish the differences between love and sex. Although I may not be the most intelligent man out there, I know what love is. Love isn’t countless sexual acts performed with one another; it is a bond, a connection, and an eternal link between two people who would do anything in the world for each other. Love is pure. Love is soul. Love is courage.
It is surprising to me how you enforce your “precious” soma among the people of the society to escape boredom, pain, grief, and depressiveness.
Soma escapes people from reality.
Soma escapes people from true happiness.
Soma escapes people from the truth.
You may sugar coat it any way you like, but although you admire the fact on people consistently swallowing pounds of soma every year, you seem to not realize that you are escaping them from how life should live its course. For life of societies before our time, they experienced head on what life was really like. For us to progress as a society, we need people to learn from their mistakes and pain so they can grow stronger. If we continue this single minded direction on somebody’s opinion on how life should be lived, we will never change or get more advanced within ourselves.
It sickens me how society’s citizens run on soma like coffee to go through their day. Abusing a substance is bad enough as it is, but letting it run the way you live and overly taking excessive amounts of it without feeling any remorse is completely impractical. Besides the side effects, people in societies before us indulged in their own soma, which was known as drugs. These drugs varied among different ways you would like to feel. They used these drugs as people today use soma. The difference between now and the past, the past looked down on the pathetic people who resorted to using such substances to escape their daily lives for a short period of time. Although soma does not have side effects towards it, it should not be accepted due to the fact of mindless citizens not knowing any better. Slowly and gradually they became more addicted to these acts of society which turns them into what the social order wants them to be. People need to wake up and start living life the way it was supposed to be: natural.
Hypnopaedic teachings has to be one of the most senseless and cold-hearted ideas that was ever brought in to civilization to further the progress of turning every person into a brainwashed citizen. I am sure that many before me may have become to question everything mistaken in this society, but have been changed in their thoughts due to the oppressive teachings hypnopaedic teaching has to offer. Not only does it slowly brainwash you from retaining a little information of the truth, but it corrupts the way every humans should establish when forming an opinion against something. Being taught in your sleep only provides information you probably wouldn’t believe when you’re awake and have the ability to come up with your own opinions. The teachings are extremely biased which makes people think whatever is being taught to them is correct completely. Over the top order doesn’t provide a healthy society; a society filled with different people with many diverse thoughts form the social order of life within the civilization do.
What is the point of living on this earth if you cannot truly enjoy life for what it really is? Torture me all you want with your cruel words of hate towards my opinions; Laugh at me for the changes I wish would be granted among the society; Kick me while I’m down in the dirt while picking myself back up. I am the free one, so you will never hold me down in your forsaken chains and suffocate me with your teachings of nothingness.
I declare myself free from these chains.
I declare myself free of these guilty feelings of lust.
I declare myself free of the frowned upon situations of reading literature.
I declare myself free of this troubled and chaotic world.
To live is to die. If death is the only way for me to fly free in my own opinions that define myself as an individual, then so be it.
Goodbye.
Ethos:
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It appeals to their ethics of being addictive to such a substance and taking it frequently.
Pathos:
"Lenina, the woman I seemed to care about more than anything in the world; the one person who made me feel as if nothing else in the world mattered as our eyes came in contact with each other with an everlasting glare. I felt as if our connection would last forever."
This shows the emotions John strongly had for Lenina before he realized she did not feel the same towards him because society's teachings of intimacy and sex with no emotions attached is all she knows.
Logos:
"Over the top order doesn’t provide a healthy society; a society filled with different people with many diverse thoughts form the social order of life within the civilization do."
John logically explains how diversity brings perfection in a society due to people going different directions. I assume he would have a basic understanding of this when discovering of literature, God's teachings, and sins among humans. The Bible teaches on how many will choose to believe and many will choose to not believe. People will sin, and people will remain faithful or come back to repent. "Romeo and Juliet" might have taught him that people have different opinions on love due to the Capulet's and Montague's different points of view towards their offspring's undeniable love.
your use of anaphora and parallelism is really good and consistent.
ReplyDeleteIt is a well written essay and I agree with Jonathan about the anaphora and parallelism being consistent!!!
ReplyDeletegood essay! good use of parallelism and anaphora .
ReplyDeleteThis was excellent! I agree with everyone about the use of parallelism and anaphora.
ReplyDeletelongest one I'v seen. Definitely filled up every word with excellence. The last part was my favorite. Absolutely poetic.
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