Government Control
Governments are organizations that administer a large group of people in a state or country. These governments should not have total power or control over its citizens, but should try to achieve a balance between freedom or rights for the people and responsibilities and following rules. With a lot of control, governments could be capable of producing terrible and strict laws and activities that could violate human rights. However, if governments did not exist, or had no power to rule over its people, societies might not be as organized and safe as now a days. No one wants that, right? If no balance exists between the freedom and rights of humans, and the control of the government to see that people respect social rules, people will not be able to live an organized though free life they deserve. |
| In this scene, Truman realizes that something unusual just happened, a light from the set just fell into Truman's hands |
The Truman Show and Governments
If, for example, we view The Truman Show, we can tell how an extremely strict government (Christoff and all the actors) are completely unfair with its citizens (Truman). For example, in the movie, Christoff has all of Truman's life planned with the actors' help. This strict ruling however, limits Truman's rights to live in the real world and have a both private and real life. Besides, as Truman realizes his life is fake, a "rebellion", starts evolving, mostly because Truman feels curiosity on exploring the real and his fake world. With The Truman Show as an example, people can start realizing that a non-balanced government is bad.Too Much Control? Or no Rules?
In conclusion, developing or having a government with full or no control is terrible for both citizens and the government itself. With a powerful government, bad events can occur, like obstruction of citizens freedom, actions against the citizens rights and rebellions. Laws can reflect many violations to human rights. However, a government with few or no power can lead to disorganization and lack of security. Like shown in The Truman Show, a powerful government can lead to people reflecting about their life and rebellions against the governments, leading to civil conflicts and war. As a final thought, governments with a balance in both power and freedom over its people is the best type of government to avoid any future problems. |
| Think of governments as parents: they have to educate their children and teach them how to follow rules, but they also have to let them go outside and get all messy (live a happy childhood) |
I agree with you Julia because governments and citizens should have the same power and we should work together so the society is a better place. Also I agree that without governments the citizens and the society will be a mess because there are to many people and all of them will never agree on something because people have different opinions. In the second paragraph what do you mean when you put the actors as part of the government? I think the actors can be compared to citizens that comply with the government. In the third paragraph I agree about "a government with few or no power can lead to disorganization and lack of security", although there can be an exception when citizens organize against the government.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment and your question. When I talked about the actors as part of Christoff's government, I meant that they did know that Truman's life was fake, and that they had to do whatever it took to keep Truman in Seahaven. However, yes, all the actors are part of the government in the Truman Show, just that they are not the people with full power.
ReplyDeleteNow that I think about it, if all citizens are organized enough to go against the government it could be an exception to the opinion that governments with few power would lead to disorganization; however, it is impressively difficult to organize a large group of people, specially if they go against a person or an organization.