I cannot stress this enough. I really enjoyed this book. I have said this again and again in before posts but it is true. The first thing that comes to mind when i read this book is i think of a communist society such China or how Germany used to be before the fall of the Berlin wall. I went to China 2 years ago and it was scary in a way. If you try and go on the internet you cant. The government only allows you to go on websites such as News sites or General public Information. If you try and go on facebook or something like that a message comes up saying that you are being blocked. That is strange and scary to me that the government constantly monitors your information. It seems like a terrible place and a place that i wish to never live in. Living in a totalitarian society like the one of Oceania would be unbearable for me. I would never be able to live in a society like this. I myself have no regard for authority. I feel like almost all my life i have been screwed over by the police for stupid things when i was younger. Now that i am older i have learned to keep my head straight. I have been pulled over before for going 41 in a 35 and have been put at gunpoint to get out of the car at 1 o'clock pm. Now really??? What is that about... Things like that really piss me off and thus contribute to my lack of regard for authority.
I feel as if Shippensburg University in a way has a sort of Communistic control over its students. By this i mean the following. Second semester last year i had my final exam on the last Friday of school. My exam was at 8 am so i decided to drive to the cub at 7 am and get some breakfast and study for a bit. I come out of the cub at 7:35 to move my car and BAM! I have a ticket for OVERTIME PARKING. I would like to add that there was only 2 other cars in the lot because it was the last day of school and No ONE is even on campus anymore. I received a $30 ticket for parking 4 minutes overtime. After my exam i drove to the police station and argued my case, explaining what the situation was and that it wasnt a big deal. But OH NO!!! it WAS a big deal to them. I didnt have the money to pay for the ticket so Ship uni Police put a hold on my account until i paid it. With this hold on my account it basically meant i was not allowed to schedule for classes for next year. Now in my opinion i DO NOT think it is right for the Uni Police to do that. To me that is saying if you dont pay this stupid parking ticket you CANNOT come back and fulfill your college career. If you do not pay this ticket we wont let you come back to school. That is basically what they are saying. So long story short the school basically screwed me over. I couldnt register for my classes. When i finally was able to i didnt get any classes i wanted and it put me a semester behind. REALLY????? Basically Ship Police are saying that if you do not pay a stupid parking ticket you cant schedule your classes. That is sooooooo dam wrong. Stupid things like this make me think of 1984. A total communistic rule. If you don't do this then we will punish you.
I would never be able to live in a society such as the one in 1984. I would rather go down in a hail of gunfire then put up with that bullshit. I hate authority and as Justin Stine said in his blog
"I would have to say that I would stockpile a bunch of weapons and go down fightin in a blaze of glory if I was a person living in the world that this novel portrayed." (Justin Stine)
I completely agree with him. I would do the same exact thing then live in a totalitarian society where i am constantly being watched and told what to do. I would go insane. All in all the book wrapped up well. I cant add any other comments about the book because i simply loved it and that is something that is rare for me to say. I hardly ever read unless i have to. I have a hard time finding books that interest me and this one truly sparked my interest.
Now i know i just ranted above about SHIP police etc but DO NOT even get me started about the parking ticket i got the other day because my front right tire was 1 GOSH DAM inch on the DAM grass!!!!!. $30 ticket because 1/4 of my front right tire was 1 inch on the grass..... REALLLY?????????? Ok i better get off my computer before i break it.
In conclusion i would never be able to live in a communistic society and i loved this book!
Not So Sure I'd Want That World
14 years ago
I would have to agree with you I would never be able to live in a communistic society.. but if you grew up in society like this you won't know any different..
ReplyDeleteWell this is a change from our usual blog. Finally something interesting to read about and that sucks about your parking tickets. I would however have to disagree with your relation of Shippensburg to a communist society. I mean sure if you don't pay $30, they put a hold on your account. But then again it's only $30 and even though the reason for the ticket was ridiculous enough, it's not like they're torturing you or threatening to let rats eat your face until you say screw the truth i believe in lies. And why are you parking on the grass anyway lmao. But i do like the quote from Justin Stine, definitely something I would rather do than live in that society.
ReplyDeleteWell Christian, you say "O, its only $30" but the point i am trying to make is that some people like myself really dont have $30 to pay. Now i am also getting at the fact that they put the hold on my record 2 days before i was supposed to schedule thus allowing for even less time to pay it. Now my MAIN point is that you are already paying $7,000 for school, meals, housing etc so why the hell does the University Police have the right to say that you cant schedule your classes because you havent paid a stupid dam ticket??? Isnt their job to protect and serve the students of shippensburg university and NOT to inhibit them from scheduling classes.???? I pay for my education and to go to this school does cost a decent amount of money (atleast for me). I am paying for my education, i am paying to learn. So why is it right for Uni Police to not let me schedule for classes. Basically if you cant pay the ticket on time your screwed. Christian in my opinion i would say that if it were me, you, and Stine left to battle the opposing elite you would definitely be the first one to go. lol O and im not parking on the grass on purpose. But i swear it was like 1 inch on the grass. And you know what kind of car i drive, so i do try and pull over away from the spot next to me as far as i can so that the person next to me doesnt fling their door open and smack my car.
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