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GA Essay Topic Control leading to Dystopia - Coggle Diagram
GA Essay Topic Control leading to Dystopia
George Saunders "Pastoralia"
Owner of the park dominates all way of life inside the park
visitors are given the illusion of happiness due to the fake expressions of employees
Narrator is a suffering man with an ungrateful family
overuse of surveillance brought out by the reports
Land of Dystopia
"Locus Of Control"
The creation of EPTOC was going to be used for a marker of control
EPTOC is built upon the work of the citizens forcefully. Those who can't work are thrown out of their homes
Corporate control is used to change aspects of park that is not liked by management instead of visitors
Disney only contains access for the people that can afford to enter the park
The area around Disney theme parks are expensive which leads to upper and middle class to be attending the park.
Disney keeps a family/children oriented to appeal to each age
If Disney was only meant for kids, they would have less visitors and less control.
Disneys look of the future is a form of propaganda
Disney's changed scenery applies a look of a better world that no one can match. This brings an illusion brought over people.
Text explains the Control Disney has on culture
Visitors are greeted with happiness no matter what. Even all the costumes have forced smiles
Do the employees really enjoy entertaining the people?
Employees are dehumanized.
Employees forced to wear costumes, under severe conditions
Workers told they are forced to smile and interact happily with visitors.
Illusions of happy employees gives visitors a sense of welcome to the park.
Illusions of a happy/family environment
Increased view of scenary
Images of a perfect city
Advanced technology
happy/jolly workers
Do the employees have freedom as well? Or are they all under the same agenda.
Fake facial expressions are given from the employees to visitors
Private security can conduct their own investigations
Private security is placed in the park to keep the order
Corporate control abuses the power of the employees as well
Employees follow commands of management to keep visitors calm
Surveillance of the park.
Security know every movement of the visitors
Surveillance also is placed on the employees of the park
Cameras are placed in all corners of the Park
No surveillance is actually kept for the park managers.
Park has its own team of private secruity
Dystopia
Bureaucratic control
Mostly the need to take as much profits as possible. Disney does not abide by their motto.
Propaganda is used to control the people/visitors of the society/park
Corporate control
Disney's management team and corporate board that controls the day to day environment of Disney
technological control
Disney's attempted city of EPCOT that brought advanced technology that undermined other places in the world
A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society. (Walt Disney)?
Working for the Mouse
Workers are forced to wear costumes under the heat
Do the workers have a say on what they can and can't do?
Employees pay is cut each year, however, Disney brings in more revenue
Workers are almost identical to the ones in Civilwarland and Pastoralia
Text mostly explains the dehumanization of employees
Arguments
Disney is a pure Utopia and not a Dystopia
A Perfect Utopia is a place full of freedom, However Disney's employees do not have that luxury.
Disney must have lost revenue due to lessened wages
Disneys Revenue actually is up more than 18% over the passed 20 years
There is no controlling factor of Disney
Disney is controlled by the Corporate board that brings the ideas of a "Perfect world" of Disney
Disney's employees try and bring happiness to anyone who walks in, which also makes them happy.
Disney is built upon happiness and family
Disney is actually built on profits. The only places where Disney is built on is near rich and middle class areas.
Walt Disney tried to make the world a better place
The World of EPTOC is actually a place filled with control and corruptions that Walt Disney tried to make. Citizens are all forced to work
EPCOT Dystopiaworld
Walt Disney tries to undermine the outside world and call EPCOT the city of the future.
All profits from the hard work of citizens goes to the Corporate
If People choose not to work, they are immediately thrown out of their homes
Said to be a city of the future, that pushes propaganda
EPCOT is based on the basis of work for the citizens in order to stay in the society
World is supposed to contain technology that is more advanced than the outside world
"Pastoralia" examples of Dystopia
Dehumanization of workers
Workers are forced to feed themselves by skinning and cooking a goat.
Surveillance brought by the evaluation forms
Corporate control is brought by the forced firing of Janet
A new worker is brought to replace Janet and the narrorator
Visitors are also being surveilled by their evaluation forms as well
Visitors are given evaluation forms that they must fill out after each exhibit