The Dystopian Society

The Dystopian society described in this book is a government that uses information to control everybody that it governs over. The government in this book uses advanced information technology to keep track of what every citizen is looking at online, where they go every day, and who they talk to about what. They also ignore the bill of rights and treat people as criminals without any solid proof, detaining high school students as terrorists on a mere whim. They denied rights to fair judgement and used unnecessary violence against people who were not proven guilty, and oppressed the people with fear. Furthermore, the people who disagreed with the government were labeled 'terrorists', and were therefore hated by the rest of the citizens, when they actually did nothing wrong. The Author's message is that the government should not control absolutely everything, and should listen to the citizens instead of deciding everything themselves, and more importantly, that this could potentially happen to our society. The Author sends this message by walking the reader through the life of one of the people being treated unfairly, and showing us firsthand, how it feels to live in such a society. The book also includes information on how technology works, and how it might be used in a negative way. I think that the book conveyed the message and the feelings of the characters in the book very effectively, and gives a very interesting point of view on the Dystopian society.