Minority Report Paranoia

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The feeling of being watched, the knowing that behind ones back prying eyes are analysing every breath and step. The terrifying realization that one is never alone, always in big brothers (supposedly) caring gaze. This is a terror that one may have to couple with in trade for the nations and one’s own security. The debate of personal privacy vs. national security is one which has been raging with an uncontainable ferocity since the the middle of the 20th century and its powerful notions have that all humans have common fear of. This issue however is to many an easy issue to solve, on the surface; in reality this issues broadens to a scope which can be analyzed only in the argument relativity to the informations area of effect and impact …show more content…
It then lies upon the nation’s integrity and the people's paranoia (well founded or not). A wonderful display of this argument is the film, Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg. This film employs a riveting argument at each end of the debate. At one end there is the nation's well funded efficiently ran, yet inhuman structure of security. This system works unprecedentedly well, but it has a flaw in that it is its own self. A flaw which uprises this question, if the future is observed in the present can the course of time be altered and therefore can the system itself have no need to imprison the pre crime victims present in the film. This discovery of the systems flaw unearths the systems unnecessary, yet present greed and desire for power. The precrime system is at first ran by a passionate and more or …show more content…
Those who find themselves finding comfort in the system are however at the whim of the system, this is where one find the true hindrance of a surveillance system, those running it. If society was ran by a completely authentic and honest system of surveillance that every citizen believed would uphold their freedoms and privacy. Here in this perfect world all would elated that their friendly government is watching a protecting them, the worry of surveillance and personal privacy would disappear because the people would not have to worry about being wrongfully treated. Yet, people are currently, greedy and paranoid and those two make the system one that often finds its own gears attempting to run the whole machine in
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