Week 8

2nd April

Classic Neil fashion my Ethernet connection was super bad that day, i arrived very unprepared for class and I was already behind being about 20 minutes late.

Reading the ideologies of Omelas it was very much alike George Orwell 1984 the book i had studied for my leaving cert. The idea of a dystopian future as i didn't see much utopia about it all to be honest. There was a very simplified lifestyle within the short story and i found parts of it hard to follow as it jumped from one place to another but maybe thats just my poor reading skills or lack of.

The idea of ones happiness sacrificed for the happiness of everyone else can once again be linked back to social media. Being that everyone say in a group is percieved as happy but in reality one may suffer through harsh jokes or being left out for the better of others. 

I think maybe the state of social media and cyberbullying back in 2013 could have related but not in 2020 to be quite honest.

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