Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order
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"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 ....
Middle of paper
.... 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
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