Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order

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Term Paper Title	Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order
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Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order

Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order

        Chris Carlson
        English 1-53

     "The Panopticon is a marvelous machine which, whatever use one may wish
to put it to, produces homogenous effects of  power."  Panopticism is a style of
controlling the individual and making him conform to the system.  That system
could refer to the police or the world as a whole.  There is never a definite
top position, therefore, everyone feels as if they are being monitored by
someone else.  It is for this reason that this disciplinary mechanism is so
effective.
     The Panopticon serves as a tool for discipline and a laboratory of power.
The capabilities of  a Panopticon are endless.  It is the basis for the
government while it could also aid in the criminal activities for the mafia.  In
the government there is a system of checks and balances where nothing can get
accomplished without the authorization  of a higher ranked official.  Once these
ideas are passed they are then imposed on the individuals of society by other
organizations .  Whether it be the police, the IRA, or a  neighborhood watch
group. The Panopticon can serve the public in many ways.  It can defend a
country,  reform prisoners,  treat the ill,  and educate the public.  It does
this by creating channels of power and distributing them to the individuals.  In
the Panopticon,  no one individual shall be granted too much power so as to
place his or her own values upon the masses.  The concept behind panopticism is
the distribution of power in order to better society as a whole.  The historical
problems with power have proven,  when it is unevenly distributed, those with
the power take advantage and impose their values on the public.  For instance,
Hitler was given too much power and he massacred millions of innocent people.
The Panopticon, on the other hand, serves to increase the wealth, welfare,
education, and spirituality of society.  The Panopticon does punish but it does
so in a means of reform.  It attempts to restore the individual to a being that
can be a productive and positive influence.  The system has two main purposes,
the distribution of power and the means of establishing discipline.
     Every aspect of the world has the ideas and principles of panopticism
behind them.  The world is full of intricate and complicated people.  These
people group together to create tribes, governments, countries, and or
civilizations.  What are the rules?  How are we,  the most compl...

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